Aristotle Philosophical Quotes — Page 13

Philosopher

Philosophical

“Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.”

Struggle Democracy Majority

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Philosopher

Philosophical

“Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.”

Government Fashion Tyrants

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Philosophical

“Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.”

Writing Mind

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Philosophical

“The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.”

Highest True Nature

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Philosophical

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

Philosophy Fear Philosophical

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Philosophical

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”

Pieces Gold Iron

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Philosophical

“It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.”

Men Firsts Matter

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Philosophical

“...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.”

Men Action Politics

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Philosophical

“The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.”

Perfect Class Community

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Philosophical

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

Men Religion Atheist

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Philosophical

“There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.”

Thinking Two Soul

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Philosophical

“And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.”

People Lying Produce

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