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Subjects Quotes by Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
- It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not…
- A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
- A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
- 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…
- ... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally…
- One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the…
- That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which…
- It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage