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Letter "A" » Aristotle Quotes
«Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Virtue
| Keywords:
nonperformance, performance, shown
«The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
chief, definiteness, degree, demonstrate, demonstrating, mathematical, sciences, symmetry, The Chief
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance
| Keywords:
Cause of action, compulsion, compulsions, human action, seven
«What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing»
«The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
effect, exciting, flute, flutes, instrument
«The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Equality,
Inequality
| Keywords:
inequalities, inequality, unequal, unequal to
«The basis of a democratic state is liberty.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic state
«A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
employment, government in, vulgar
«Philosophy is the science which considers truth»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy,
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
considers
«Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.»
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