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Aristotle Quotes - Page 38

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Science, Engineering, Everyday

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Democracy, Citizens, Injustice

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

Education, Hate, Years

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.259, Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Life, Political, Politics

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Ethics, Contemplation, Form

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

Knowledge, Men, Sight

Aristotle (1961). “The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick”

Happiness is a sort of action.

Happiness, Action

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

Exercise, Justice, Ethics

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Rivers, People, Environmental

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Mean, Ideas, Ends

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

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Art, Nature, Men

Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Wish, May, Assuming

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Women, Males, Negative

Aristotle (1853). “The Politics and Economics of Aristotle”

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Causes

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Water, Democracy, Littles

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2041, Princeton University Press

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

Fire, Years, Sixteen

"De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus". Book by Aristotle, edited by Laurence D Dowdall, archive.org. 1909.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

Education, Views, Intellectual

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.214, Princeton University Press

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

Heart, Views, Brain

Aristotle, Arthur Leslie Peck (1961). “Parts of animals”, Loeb Classical Library

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

Nature, Children, Science

Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

Writing, Firsts, Details

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3458, Delphi Classics

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Mean, Hypnosis, Speech

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.148, Aeterna Press

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Men, Politics, Politician

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.4, Wordsworth Editions

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

Wisdom, Moving, Responsibility

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