Aristotle — Philosophical Quotes

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Aristotle Quotes

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.”

Long Office Easy

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.”

Art Moving Science

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“A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.”

Democracy Weak Oligarchy

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“The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.”

Age Body

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“While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it”

Mind Soul

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“Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.”

Pain Causes Noble

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“We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.”

Animal Nature Natural

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“The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.”

Men Believe Ideas

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“There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.”

Would Be Imagine Slave

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“The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.”

Two Soul Principles

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“This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.”

World This World Astrology

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“There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.”

Simple Ignorance Source

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