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Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.


— Aristotle


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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.


— Aristotle


#causes #chance #compulsions #desire #habit

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.


— Aristotle


#democracy #men #property #rulers

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.


— Aristotle


#act #habit #quality

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.


— Aristotle


#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.


— Aristotle


#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.


— Aristotle


#his #justice #law #man #noblest

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.


— Aristotle


#called #character #effective #may #means

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.


— Aristotle


#democracy #majority #more #more power #poor

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.


— Aristotle


#because #certain #children #fathers #fonder






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Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

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