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Aristotle Quotes - Page 39

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Wisdom, Men, Attention

Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.42, Oxford University Press

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Sex, Funny Marriage, Bachelors

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Life, Philosophical, Fancy

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Real, Men, Wish

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1846, Princeton University Press

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

Writing, Law, Justice

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Men, Hands, Democracy

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Men, Special, Use

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.49, Aristotle

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Class, Community, Political

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Missing, Wish, Citizens

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

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Courage, Way, Endure

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

Art, Son, Planning

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

Animal, Understanding, Soul

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Words Of Wisdom

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Men, Political, Royal

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Dream, Insomnia, Consciousness

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

Mean, Two, Circles

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Running, Men, People

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Aeterna Press

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Inspirational, Life, God

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Dream, Hope, Funny Inspirational

"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laertius, p. 187, 1853.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Father, Men, Desire

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.62, Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

People, Desire, Example

"Metaphysics" by Aristotle, Book I, (980a.21),

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Wonder, Humans, Has Beens

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

Education, Children, Thinking

Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.333, Collector's Library

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

Knowledge, Unqualified, Eternity

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1799, Princeton University Press

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

Animal, Thinking, Order

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

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