3 December 2020 Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
3 December 2020 Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
3 December 2020 Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
3 December 2020 Aristotle 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.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
3 December 2020 Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
3 December 2020 Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
