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Aristotle Quotes about Soul

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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Soul, Quality, Function

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

Men, Soul, Doe

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Passion, Soul, Kind

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Soul, Sitting, Prudent

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

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Memories, Soul, Scribes

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Greatness, Men, Soul

Aristotle (2017). “Eleven Common Characteristics of Great Souls”, p.4, Philaletheians UK

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Two, Soul, Body

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Soul, Suffering, Body

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

Soul, Perception, Growth

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Passion, Opposites, Soul

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Happiness, Perfect, Soul

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Imagination, Soul, Belief

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.67, Aeterna Press

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Soul, Body, Shapes

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

Two, Evil, Soul

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Light, Soul, Reason

Aristotle (1926). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

Soul, Ends, Goods

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Soul, Mind, Body

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Heart, Soul, Brain

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Men, Soul, What Is Happiness

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

Thinking, Two, Soul

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.65, Aeterna Press

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Eye, Soul, Bats

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

Soul, Principles, Different

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Real, Thinking, Soul

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