"Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to……" — Sissela Bok
"Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like."
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12 Quotes by Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site.
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic…
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives…
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know…
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To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth,…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic…
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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect…
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More Aristotle Quotes
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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