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
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is… — 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
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — 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
