Ifs Quotes by Aristotle

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

— Aristotle

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

— Aristotle

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

— Aristotle

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

— Aristotle

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

— Aristotle

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

— Aristotle

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

— Aristotle

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

— Aristotle

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be…

— Aristotle

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

— Aristotle

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong…

— Aristotle

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the…

— Aristotle

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.…

— Aristotle

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than…

— Aristotle

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

— Aristotle

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

— Aristotle

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he…

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein…

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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who…

— Aristotle

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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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not…

— Aristotle

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the…

— Aristotle

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will…

— Aristotle

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live…

— Aristotle

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning…

— Aristotle

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

— Aristotle

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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Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this…

— Aristotle

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable…

— Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

— Aristotle

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

— Aristotle

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

— Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

— Aristotle

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

— Aristotle

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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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be…

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as…

— Aristotle