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Aristotle Quotes - Page 49

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Believe, Desire, Cases

Aristotle (2004). “The Metaphysics”, p.425, Penguin UK

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Men, Good Man, Needs

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

Lying, Heart, Soul

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

Example, Way, Proof

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.14

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Life, Men, Cost

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.89, Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Words Of Wisdom, Deals, Subjects

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

Passion, Men, Self

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

Government, Law, Office

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3114, Delphi Classics

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

Moving, Body, Equal

"On the Heavens". Book by Aristotle. Book IV, 1,

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Beautiful, Education, Math

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

Happiness, Blessed, Men

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1737, Princeton University Press

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Two, Soul, Two Souls

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

Animal, Class, Males

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1150, Princeton University Press

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Spirit, Madness, Source

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Men, Coins, Favour

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

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

Character, Men, Self

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

Government, Tyrants, Justice

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Princeton University Press

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

Essence, Soul, Three

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.37, Aeterna Press

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Infinity, Infinite, Quantity

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Heart, Opinion

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

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Revenge, Men, Evil

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

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom, Substance

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Mean, Fate, Sea

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.30, Princeton University Press

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Men, Together, Toil

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

War, Class, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

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