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Aristotle Quotes - Page 45

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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Men, Perfect, Soul

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

Errors, Views, Law

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Parenting, Ill Will, Evil

They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

Fall, Beer, Drunk

Talent is culture with insolence.

Culture, Talent, Insolence

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

Education, Wise, Drinking

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

Strong, Passion, Men

Aristotle (2012). “Rhetoric”, p.84, Courier Corporation

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

Soul, Intellectual, Truth Is

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Friends, People, Littles

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.608, Simon and Schuster

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Dragons, Juice, Fruit

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Character, Government, Democracy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

Education, Children, Growing Up

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2971, Delphi Classics

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Lovers, Wonder, Myth

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Country, Army, Gun

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Player, Building Houses, People

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Education, Principles, Use

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2122, Princeton University Press

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Time, Art, Air

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Men, Form, Evident

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.223, Aristotle

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

Men, Thinking, Titles

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Evil, Chosen, Greater

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1786, Princeton University Press

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Men, Firsts

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Men, Lows, Mercenary

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Witty, Men, Etc

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

Children, Animal, Brave

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Mean, Men, Class

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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