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Aristotle Quotes - Page 29

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Responsibility, Bears, Injustice

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”

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Thinking, Views, Order

Happiness is the highest good

Inspirational, Philosophical, Highest

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Art

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Government, Sovereign, Facts

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

People, Ethics, Virtue

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Men, Misanthrope, Beast

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Real, Men, Differences

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2031, Princeton University Press

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

Mean, Opposites, Heaven

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Happiness, Self, Perfect

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Order, Doe, Talent

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

Hands, Errors, Giving

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

Kings, Children, Believe

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Summer, Time, Blessed

Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Education, Soul, Doe

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.266, Aristotle

The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

Differences, Unity, Absence

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Fashion, Nature, Lying

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Summer, Blessed, Men

Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

Happiness, Men, Perfect

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Numbers, Political, Poverty

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Philosophical, Soul And Body, Figures

"Aristotle's Psychology". Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.

Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

Men, Able, Constitution

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.123, Aristotle

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Causes

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Fall, Government, Class

Aristotle (1943). “On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics”

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Religious, Men, Thinking

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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