Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all Aristotle More Quotes by Aristotle More Quotes From Aristotle A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. Aristotle inferiorsflatterer To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. Aristotle wisewritingmen Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle motivationalpositiveinspirational All things are full of gods. Aristotle all-things Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state. Aristotle partymeanthinking As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense. Aristotle husbandlosschildren The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering. Aristotle sickknowingjudging In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle sprung-upjusticemen Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not. Aristotle angerpainhate What we expect, that we find. Aristotle law-of-attractionattraction 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 of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? Aristotle depressionphilosophyart When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings. Aristotle pursuit-of-happinesscommunitylaw The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. Aristotle cowardbravemen For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. Aristotle consciousnessdreaminsomnia Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle philosophicalnatureanimal Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. Aristotle divinedesirethinking Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle humorteachingteacher The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful. Aristotle aim-of-educationhatredanimal If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development Aristotle developmentifshistory The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.) Aristotle curveshandsreality
