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Aristotle Quotes - Page 7

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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Engagement, Activity, Highest

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

Hard, Unlearn

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.123, Aristotle

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Ambition, Exercise, Self

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Drinking, Mean, Exercise

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Witty, Equality, Men

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Art, Type, Art Is

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Long, Impossible, Argument

Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.283, Hackett Publishing

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

May, Firsts, Causes

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Justice, Want, Crime

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Success, Education, Teaching

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Motivational, Morning, Health

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Choices, Matter, Chance

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Wise, People, Effort

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

Writing, Mind, Speech

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

Men, Evil, Human Nature

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

Mean, Parent, Usury

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

Laughing, Faces, Bears

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Men, Desire, Unions

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

Hands, Unions, Littles

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Inspirational, Witty, Philosophical

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Ambition, People, Wish

Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Motivational, Mirrors, Way

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Educational

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Truth, Honesty, Ethics

Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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