Quote

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

Aristotle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
People
Case
Address
Cases
Addresses
Impossible
Accurate
Education
Medium
Persuade
Knowledge
Mediums
Multitude
Easy
Scientific
Extend
Even
Privilege
Multitudes
Would
Appreciate
Discourse

More quotes by Aristotle

Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle
Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
Aristotle
Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Aristotle
Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
Aristotle
Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
Aristotle
Image
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Aristotle
Image
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
Aristotle
Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
Aristotle
Image
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
Image
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle
Image
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle
Image
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Aristotle
Image
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
Image
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Aristotle
Image
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
Aristotle
Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
Aristotle
Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
Aristotle
Image
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.
Aristotle
Image
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
Aristotle
Image
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
Aristotle