Aristotle — Philosophical Quotes

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Aristotle Quotes

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.”

Should Should Have Easy

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.”

Easier Ability Good Sense

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“When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.”

Mean Ideas

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Philosophical

“The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

Character Fool

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Philosophical

“We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.”

People Evil Second Best

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Philosophical

“Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.”

Garden Soil

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Philosophical

“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”

Mankind Avarice

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Philosophical

“The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.”

Political Numbers Democracy

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Philosophical

“We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.”

Thinking Soul Psychics

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“If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.”

Found Assuming Statistics

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“So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.”

Political Together Association

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“The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.”

Government Evil Cities

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