The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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