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Things Quotes by Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good…
- Change in all things is sweet.
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by…
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in…
- 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…
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
- If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
- All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with…
- He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
- 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…
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not…
- People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
- When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and…
- Love is the cause of unity in all things.
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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle