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Lying Quotes by Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
- We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
- Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
- 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…
- It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.
- A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when…
- Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
- 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 heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must…
- All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
- Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
- Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to…
More Lying Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden