Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. Aristotle More Quotes by Aristotle More Quotes From Aristotle The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number. Aristotle democracy government numbers The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . . Aristotle growth perception soul Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. Aristotle virtue honor bears For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant. Aristotle lovers soul men The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. Aristotle bad-man men war We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything. Aristotle immortality elements thinking In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless. Aristotle rely-upon men people In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Aristotle democracies-have democracy power Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. Aristotle speech mind writing A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle city-life philosophical cities Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them. Aristotle happiness men order What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable. Aristotle unqualified eternity knowledge In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle philosophical nature life Those who believe 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 party matter believe 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 chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle citizens parent children A friend is another I. Aristotle friendship It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Aristotle black kindness justice Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. Aristotle persuasion may mean Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden. Aristotle pain law men The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children. Aristotle education children school
