Top 25 Quotes by Aristotle of 1272 - Page 30

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Aristotle

Children, Couple, Law

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

Aristotle

Thinking, Elements, Immortality

Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). “Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

Aristotle

Law, Style, Purpose

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Aristotle

Art, Long, Matter

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

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Aristotle

Should, Existence, If Then

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.166

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

Aristotle

Views, Government, Citizens

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle

Passion, Men, Law

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Aristotle

Government, Democracy, Form

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

Aristotle

Atheism, May, Assuming

"Posterior Analytics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, Part 25,

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Aristotle

Suicide, Running, Suicidal

Nicomachean Ethics 3

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?

Aristotle

Depression, Art, Philosophy

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

Aristotle

Children, Husband, Loss

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Aristotle

Imagination, Perception

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

Aristotle

Mistake, Justice, Judging

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Aristotle

Mean, Desire, Permit

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

Aristotle

Men, Perfect, Good Man

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Aristotle

Life, Archer, Purpose

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

Life, Philosophical, Alcohol

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 student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Aristotle

Soul, Students, Study

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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Aristotle

Life, Gratitude, Courage

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Change, Sweet, Philosophical

Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Aristotle

Lying, People, Produce

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Aristotle

Race, Firsts, Runners

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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