Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Aristotle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Would
Player
Reside
Men
Artist
Flutes
Thought
Sculptor
Seems
Sculptors
Wells
Function
Well
General
Good
Activity
Things
Seem
Flute
More quotes by Aristotle
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Aristotle
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).
Aristotle
You should never think without an image.
Aristotle
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the why in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
Aristotle
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
Aristotle
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
Aristotle
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
Aristotle
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
Aristotle
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
Aristotle
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Aristotle
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
Aristotle
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
Aristotle
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one
Aristotle
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Aristotle
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Aristotle
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
Aristotle
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.
Aristotle
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
Aristotle
