Quotes by Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 384 - 322

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

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  • It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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  • It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
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  • It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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  • It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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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 not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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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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  • It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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  • It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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  • It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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  • It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
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  • Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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  • Man is by nature a political animal.
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  • Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
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  • Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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  • Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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  • Most people would rather give than get affection.
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  • Nature does nothing uselessly.
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  • No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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  • No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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