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Aristotle Quotes - Page 37

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Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

Men, Thinking, Good Man

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Spring, Doe, April

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

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

Art, Sacrifice, Men

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Hero, Destiny, Tragedy

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

Men, Rely Upon, People

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.142, Princeton University Press

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Pain, Noble, Causes

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

Science, Thinking, Doe

Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.277, Princeton University Press

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

Passion, Learning, Character

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1730, Princeton University Press

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

Age, Body, Thirty

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Success, Men, Games

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Inspirational, Art, Mean

Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.216, Collector's Library

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship, Real, Justice

Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Lying, Wish

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Perfect, Virtue, Habit

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

Art, Moving, Science

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1574, Princeton University Press

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Power, Law, Long

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Love, Finals, Causes

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Truth, History, Giving

Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Pride, Men, People

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

Art, War, Long

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.68, Aristotle

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Men, Good Man, Excellence

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Quality, Excess, Moral

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

Mean, Missing, Feelings

Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Practice, Action

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Nature, Truth, Mind

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