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Principles Quotes by Aristotle
- Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion…
- The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are…
- 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…
- ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral…
- Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
- The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles…
- It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we…
- ...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
- ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
- 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…
- It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm 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…
- 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…
More Principles Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. — Kofi Annan
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we… — Thomas Jefferson