Aristotle Quotes, Art Quotes, Practice Quotes

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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All communication must lead to change

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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

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You are what you repeatedly do

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

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Philosophy begins with wonder.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Beauty is a gift of God.

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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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