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Human Quotes by Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Human beings are curious by nature.
- The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
- Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness…
- Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
- . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand…
- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
- At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
- When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote…
- Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the…
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
- There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.…
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
- We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put…
- It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an…
- Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt