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Causes Quotes by Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
- We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
- For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will…
- Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems…
- The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are…
- Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
- Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
- Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
- Love is the cause of unity in all things.
- To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
- To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their…
- If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
- It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we…
- Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
- The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
- For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the…
- One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the…
- The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into…
- In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the…
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