Top 25 Quotes by Aristotle of 1272 - Page 15

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

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

Soul, Suffering, Body

Beauty is a gift of God.

Beauty, Gift From God

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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Character, Thoughtful, Thinking

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

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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Men, Opinion, Knows

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

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 . . .

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Soul, Perception, Growth

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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Sad, Suicide, Pain

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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Justice

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

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Good Life, Sake, States

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Mean, Desire, Purpose

Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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Men, Mind, Littles

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Yellow, Gold, Objects

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Courage, Peace, Bravery

"Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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Able, Action, Study

"Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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Ignorance, Simple, Source

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”

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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Philosophical, Mean, Pleasure

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

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Garden, Soil

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

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Blessed, Excellence, Crafts

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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Would Be, Claims, Following

Anybody can get hit over the head.

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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Character, Mean, Men

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3615, Modern Library