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Power Quotes by Aristotle
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right…
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is…
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- 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…
- 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…
- Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what…
- Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
- And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of…
- Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
- Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
- A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
- . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand…
- Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or…
- Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this,…
- 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…
- 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…
- This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
- 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…
- Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals…
- Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo