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Order Quotes by Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
- Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
- for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been…
- Law is order, and good law is good order.
- Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order…
- In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
- Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
- Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea…
- We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice…
- 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…
- To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but…
- 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…
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila