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Aristotle Quotes - Page 31

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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Spring, Revolution, Rebellion

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”

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Science, Views, Growth

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.14, Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Events, Statistics, Should

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Fear, Men, Evil

Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Philosophical, Law, Ought

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Science, Years, Mind

Rhetoric II.xiv

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

Mean, Men, Gains

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Romantic, Heart, Justice

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Numbers, Soul, May

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Truth, Honesty, Plato

Greek original ascribed to Aristotle

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Long, Office, Easy

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Art, Artist, Giving

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Book, Fiction, Impossible

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Friendship, Men, Perfection

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1827, Princeton University Press

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

Crush, Pain, Adversity

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

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Order, Would Be, Purpose

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Philosophical, Character, Mean

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.26, Aeterna Press

Adventure is worthwhile.

Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Beauty, Beautiful, Confused

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Justice, Political, Common

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Funny, Humor, Thieves

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Education, School, People

We must become just be doing just acts.

Philosophy, Educational, Literature

Aristotle, (2014). “Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works”, p.242, Princeton University Press

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Friendship, People, Justice

Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Men, Brave, Coward

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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