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Form Quotes by Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a…
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
- Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by…
- 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…
- Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it…
- Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness…
- Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which…
- Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion;…
- All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
- The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
- Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final…
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen…
- Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a…
- The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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