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Aristotle Quotes about Lying

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Lying, Philosophical, Perfect

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

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

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

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Lying, Government, Political

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Art, Lying, Taught

Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.50, Xist Publishing

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.

Lying, Moving, Science

"The Essential Aristotle".

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Lying, Mean, Men

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

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

Beautiful, Wise, Lying

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

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

Running, Lying, Two

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Lying, Heart, Perfection

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Fashion, Nature, Lying

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Causes

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Lying, People, Produce

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

Stars, Lying, Night

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Lying, Mean, Men

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

Lying, Aging, Conformity

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Lying, Deceit, Gains

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

Happiness, Lying, Order

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Lying, Wish

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

Lying, Heart, Soul

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