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Aristotle Quotes - Page 14

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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Knowing, Sick, Judging

De Republica III.16

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

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

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Mean, Acceptance, Ends

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Pain, Fear, Philosophical

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Courage, Philosophical, Brave

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Inspirational, Men, Practice

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.597, Simon and Schuster

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

Happiness, Independence, May

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Inspirational, Happiness, Adventure

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

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Anger, Men, Judging

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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".

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

Baby, Mean, Way

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Two, Soul, Body

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Math, Statistics, Knows

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Education, Passion, Reason

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.279, Wordsworth Editions

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

Business, Action, Virtue

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

Money, Guarantees That, Desire

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Community, Citizens, Common

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Men, Cities, People

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Words Of Wisdom, Starting, Metaphysics

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Hurt, Men, Law

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Life, Death, Education

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

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Thinking, Justice, Diversity

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage, Philosophical, Mean

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, 3.6,

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