... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — 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
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — 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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