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Thought Quotes by Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike…
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed…
- 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…
- A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
- At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was…
- 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…
- The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
- Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also…
- The actuality of thought is life.
- Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then…
- It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
- Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
- For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
- 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…
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
- [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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