Aristotle quotes - page 14

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. (Aristotle)

A man is the origin of his action.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. (Aristotle)

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. (Aristotle)

So it is naturally with the male and the female the one is superior, the other inferior the one governs, the other is governed and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

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All art is concerned with coming into being.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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Aristotle

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Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC
Quotes count: 461
Wikipedia: Aristotle

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