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Aristotle Quotes - Page 9

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Way, Occam's Razor

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Men, Class, Slave

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Doe, Purpose, God And Nature

Aristotle (1971). “On the heavens”, Loeb Classical Library

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

People, Ignorant, Obstinate

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

Lying, Two, Soul

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Action, Misery, Form

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Philosophy, Animal, Men

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Ignorance, Men, Self

A promise made must be a promise kept.

Promise, Made

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

Thinking, Principles, Analysis

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Physics”, p.11, Aeterna Press

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Way, Achieve, Express Yourself

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

Insanity, Genius

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Memories, Soul, Scribes

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Character, Fool, Wealth

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Animal, Men, Self

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Men, Goal

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Desire, Doe, Good Things

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Wife, Quality, Female

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Atheist, Men, Religion

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Nature, Science, Views

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Inspirational, Business, Work

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Anger, Way, Fool

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1777, Princeton University Press

All proofs rest on premises.

Proof, Premises

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Men, Differences, Ignorant

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

Animal, Hatred, Aim Of Education

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