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Aristotle Quotes about Philosophy

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

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”

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Philosophy, Science, Technology

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

Philosophy, Animal, Men

It is no easy task to be good.

Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Art, Philosophy, Men

Aristotle, Anaximenes (of Lampsacus.) (1936). “Problems ...”

Philosophy can make people sick.

Philosophy, People, Sick

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.48, Aeterna Press

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

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

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

Philosophy, Men, Words Of Wisdom

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

Philosophy, Names, Medicine

Aristotle (1815). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.66

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

Depression, Art, Philosophy

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.3493, Catholic Way Publishing

We must become just be doing just acts.

Philosophy, Educational, Literature

Aristotle, (2014). “Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works”, p.242, Princeton University Press

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Art, Philosophy, Tendencies

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Philosophy, Educational, Excellence

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

War, Philosophy, May

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Philosophy, Sin, Athenians

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.26, Catholic Way Publishing

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

Philosophy, Mean, Men

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

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Life, Philosophy, Educational

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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

Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom, Substance

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