Aristotle Quotes
54 Quotes Found
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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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.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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