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Mind Quotes by Aristotle

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The energy of the mind is what makes life active, according to Aristotle. He says that a good ruler should plant the same ideas in every citizen’s mind to help the state. Aristotle also warns that paid work can wear down the mind, while simple toys keep a child’s mind lively.

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Law is mind without reason.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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“For the activity of the mind is life”

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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

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Perception starts with the eye.

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Limits exist only in the mind

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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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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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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“Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless…

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind.…

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind…

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of…

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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character…

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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.…

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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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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all…

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then…

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Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of…

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

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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 same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as…

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant…

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is…

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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.

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

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

All men by nature desire to know.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

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

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

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.