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Soul Quotes by Aristotle

96 Soul quotes by Aristotle

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Aristotle says the soul helps us grasp truth and nature. He splits the soul into rational and irrational parts, linking virtue to emotions, capacities, or dispositions. He also sees friendship as two souls sharing one body and memory as the soul’s scribe.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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The soul is the form of the body

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies

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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

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What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of…

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to…

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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is…

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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

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A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one…

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it…

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in…

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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…

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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it…

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those…

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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to…

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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the…

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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in…

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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…

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

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But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind…

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously…

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even…

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

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What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than…

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“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if…

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“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it…

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In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and…

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the…

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The soul can not think without a picture.

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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.