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Aristotle Quotes - Page 35

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Soul, Desire, Principles

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Math, Principles, Firsts

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Self, Consciousness, Conscious

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

Character, Men, Differences

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1103b,

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Men, Human Nature, Mass

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

Soul, Affection, Impression

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Honor, Bears, Virtue

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Change, Blessed, Character

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Art, Tasks, Virtue

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Science, Animal, Sheep

Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Animal, Two, Soul

Aristotle (2015). “The Complete Aristotle”, p.1108, Booklassic

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Fall, Humble, Feelings

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

Memories, Animal, Past

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

Pain, Mean, Awards

Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.12

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Would Be, Imagine, Slave

Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Power, Democracies Have, Democracy

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Beautiful, Errors, Order

"Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book XIII, 1078a.33,

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

Two, Soul, Half

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Education, Men, Giving

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

Philosophical, Plot, Poet

'Poetics' ch. 24, 1460a

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Philosophy, Educational, Excellence

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

Spiritual, Exercise, Men

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

Thinking, Men, Doctors

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1746, Princeton University Press

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Integrity, Moving, Waiting

When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

Taken, Unjust, Stones

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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