Aristotle Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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Our actions determine our dispositions.

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We make war that we may live in peace.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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