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Aristotle Quotes - Page 32

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Everyone honors the wise.

Everyone honors the wise.

Wise, Honor

Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Men, Said, Ought

Aristotle (1951). “Aristotle on the Art of Poetry”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Fear, Men, Wicked

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Men, Host, Popularity

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

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Inquiry, Pursuit, Aim

"The Essential Aristotle".

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Metaphor, Masters

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Art, Nature, Supplements

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”

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

Stars, Lying, Night

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

Rain, Moving, Agency

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1272, Catholic Way Publishing

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Argument, Disputes, Term

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Men, Perfect, Good Man

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Thinking, Imagination, Soul

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.66, Aeterna Press

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

Art, Mean, Intellectual

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Government, Election, Made

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Science, Growth, Growing

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Philosophical, Men, Uprising

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Two, Soul, Body

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Lying, Mean, Men

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

Cities, Wells, Ifs

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Self, Connectedness

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

Lying, Aging, Conformity

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

Men, Diversity, Events

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Lonely, Loneliness, Philosophical

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

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

Life Is

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Lying, Deceit, Gains

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”

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