Collected Meditations
Showing 154 quotesTo attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.— Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.— Aristotle
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Poetry
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.— Aristotle
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Fear
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.— 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.— Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.— Aristotle
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.— Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.— Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.— Aristotle
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Friendship