Mean Quotes by Aristotle

“mean is the cause”

— Aristotle

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

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean”

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the…

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for…

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Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth…

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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they…

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money,…

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“By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for…

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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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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in…

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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue…

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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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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…

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Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…

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That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply…

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the…

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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…

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

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice…

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the…

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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It…

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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

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“There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of…

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One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving…

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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .…

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