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Aristotle Quotes - Page 33

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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Sake, Wealth, Making Money

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1732, Princeton University Press

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Diversity, Mankind, Character Education

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Mean, Two, Vices

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Exercise, Men, People

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Pain, Hate, Anger

Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

To perceive is to suffer.

Life, Depression, Education

Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Inspirational, Goal, Project Management

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

Two, Numbers, Government

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2050, Princeton University Press

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Mean, Names, Honor

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

Men, Law, Political

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Passion, Tragedy, Ends

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Sweet, Teenage, People

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

Science, Differences, Views

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.1731, Modern Library

Our actions determine our dispositions.

Our Actions, Action, Disposition

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Greatness, Thinking, Luxury

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

They should rule who are able to rule best.

Government, Able, Should

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2020, Princeton University Press

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Thinking, Divinity, Excellent

Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.193, Roger Bishop Jones

Evils draw men together.

Men, Evil, Together

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.43, Aeterna Press

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Children, Men, Desire

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

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Men, Inability, Use

"Poetics and Rhetoric".

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

Class, People, Vices

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

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

Law, Government, Democracy

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Selfishness, Degrees, Bigs

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

Two, Soul, Principles

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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