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Such 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.
- It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
- There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.…
- Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
- Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some…
- A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing…
- Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
- Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there…
- ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
- The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into…
- Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,…
- There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.…
- It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
- In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right…
- Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures…
- For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such…
- The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of…
- Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the…
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