Aristotle Quotes, Tools Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

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If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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A person's life persuades better than his word.

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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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We are what we repeatedly do.

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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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