Top 25 Quotes by Aristotle of 1272 - Page 40

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Justice, Self Centered

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

Aristotle

Real, Animal, Views

Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

Aristotle

Sacrifice, Offers, Sacrifice To God

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”

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

Aristotle

Beautiful, Animal, Venture

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Parts of Animals”, p.27, Aeterna Press

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. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

Aristotle

Men, Animal, Law

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

Aristotle

Mean, Views, Soul

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

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

Political, Noble, Sake

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.97, Aristotle

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Aristotle

Art, Nature, Raison D'etre

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Aristotle

Creative, Causes, Prove

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.137, Aeterna Press

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Aristotle

Spring, Law, Revolution

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle

Suicide, Men, Order

Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

Aristotle

Happiness, Mean, Finals

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Aristotle

Law, Ideas, Justice

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.91

Education begins at the level of the learner.

Aristotle

Education, Learning, Levels

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Aristotle

Long, People, Persons

Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.86, Aristotle

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Aristotle

Music, Facts, Notes

Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Aristotle

Thinking, Self, Soul

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle

Inspiration, Two, Inspire

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.3228, Modern Library

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Aristotle

Good Life, Self, Community

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1987, Princeton University Press

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Aristotle

Happiness, Exercise, Soul

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Aristotle

Men, Simplicity, Crowds

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

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Sight, Names, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1733, Princeton University Press

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

Aristotle

Men, Progress, Complaining

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2004, Princeton University Press