ARISTOTLE QUOTES IX

Greek philosopher (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)


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To those who cite the disreputable sorts of pleasure one may fairly reply that these are not really pleasant. For we ought not, because they are pleasant to the wrongly disposed, to think they are generally pleasant, or to any but these; just as things that are wholesome or sweet or bitter to the sick, are not so to all, and as things are not really white that seem so to those suffering from opthalmia.

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Nicomachean Ethics


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Tags: pleasure


In the human constitution, therefore, mind governs matter absolutely and despotically; but reason governs appetite with a far more limited sway.

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Politics

Tags: mind


Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

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Politics

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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speach and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

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Rhetoric


Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

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attributed, Day's Collacon


Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

Tags: revolution


Change in all things is sweet.

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Nicomachean Ethics

Tags: change


Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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Nicomachean Ethics

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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

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Nicomachean Ethics

Tags: habit


A beautiful object, whether it be a picture of a living organism or any whole composed of parts, must not only have an orderly arrangement of parts, but most also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty depends on magnitude and order.

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Poetics

Tags: beauty


Whether government be a good or a bad thing, it is fair that men of equal abilities and virtues should equally share in it; that they should receive the advantage of it as their right, or bear the burden of it as their duty.

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Politics

Tags: government


If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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Nicomachean Ethics


A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.

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Poetics

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Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.

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Rhetoric

Tags: opinion


Wickedness is nourished by lust.

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attributed, Day's Collacon

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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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Nicomachean Ethics

Tags: virtue


The necessity of perpetuating the species, forms the combining principle between males and females; a principle independent of choice or design, and alike incident to animals and to plants, which are all naturally impelled to propagate their respective kinds.

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Politics


The advantageous situation of the capital and of the territory is necessarily a part of the common stock; and all men who inhabit the same city and country must breathe the same air, and enjoy the same climate.

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Politics


Now, it is of great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can and leave as few as may be to the decision of the judges; and for this several reasons. First, to find one man, or a few men, who are sensible persons and capable of legislating and administering justice is easier than to find a large number. Next, laws are made after long consideration, whereas decisions in the courts are given at short notice, which makes it hard for those who try the case to satisfy the claims of justice and expediency.

ARISTOTLE

Rhetoric

Tags: law


Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

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Rhetoric