To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to… — 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
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation,… — 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
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one… — 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
There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
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