Aristotle

Aristotle

Philosopher

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher whose works on ethics, metaphysics, and politics laid foundational principles for Western thought.

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January 1, 0384
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January 1, 0322
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"Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women."

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"A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art."

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"People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just."

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"For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. ."

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"As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know."

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"All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful."

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"The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end."

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"So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom."

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"Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold."

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"Justice is Equality...but equality of what?"

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"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."

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"Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn."

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"For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream."

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"If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents."

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"My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside."

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"But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual."

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"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."

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"Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind."

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"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."

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"The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids."

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