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Aristotle Quotes - Page 27

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Character, Angel, Men

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Inspirational, Friendship, Art

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

Encouragement, Overcoming, Today

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Long Distance Relationship, Break Off, Doe

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1829, Princeton University Press

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Self, Obedience, Nicomachean Ethics

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Character, Men, Feelings

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

Happiness, Happy Life, Self

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Art, States, Capacity

Aristotle (2007). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.143, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

Character, Mean, Three

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Statistics, Assuming, Found

Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

Running, Lying, Two

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Way, May, Wealth

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.167

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Justice, Soul, Desert

Aristotle (1812). “Works”, p.626

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Prayer, Sacrifice, Atheism

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

People, Appreciate, Addresses

Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.8

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

Kings, Government, Law

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3028, Delphi Classics

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Beauty, Philosophical, Letters

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Honesty, Men, Excellence

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

Law, Cities, Political

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Science, Engineering, Order

Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.202, Roger Bishop Jones

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Happiness, Summer, Doe

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

Writing, Speak, Easy

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

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