Aristotle Quotes
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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.
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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
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The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
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The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
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There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
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Friendship is communion.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.