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Aristotle Quotes - Page 41

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Philosophy, Sin, Athenians

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.26, Catholic Way Publishing

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

People, Evil, Second Best

Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

Attitude, Men, Feelings

What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

Good Life, Successful, Agreement

Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

People generally despise where they flatter.

People, Flattery, Despise

Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

Blessed, Government, Hands

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3135, Delphi Classics

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Men, Matter, Firsts

Metaphysics, bk.1, ch.2, 982 (translated by H Tredennick).

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

Sports, Men, People

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Movement

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Animal, Soul, Special

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

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Fall, Play, Justice

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1784, Princeton University Press

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

Goal, Meaning Of Life, Done

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, circa 349 BC.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

Vices, Lines, Riches

Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Simple, Long, Evil

Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

Reality, Curves, Hands

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

Arms, Constitution, Position

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

Choices, Abortion, Alive

Aristotle (1944). “Politics”, Loeb Classical Library

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

True Friend, Character, People

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Mean, Men, Practice

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Differences, Essentials, Absence

Aristotle, Preston Herschel Epps (1942). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

Eye, People, Perception

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Math, Circles, Strange

Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Equality, Thinking, Democrat

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Lonely, War, Play

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