More Aristotle Quotes And Musings

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“Each man speaks and acts and lives according to his character. Falsehood is mean and culpable and truth noble and worthy of praise. The man who is truthful where nothing is at stake will be still more truthful where something is at stake.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“A man who claims to be more than he is to gain reputation is not much blamed, but if he should do so for money or things that lead to money he is an ugly character.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Mock-modest people who understate things seem more attractive in character, for they have no thought of gain but rather to avoid any parade of qualities which might bring reputation that they disclaim. Some seem boastful through moderation, like Spartan dress, for both excess and great deficiency are boastful.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“We think young people should be prone to shame because they live by feeling and commit many errors and are restrained by shame.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Since the unjust man is grasping, he must be concerned with those goods that lead to prosperity and adversity.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Rule will show the man. Bias.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Justice alone of the virtues is thought to be ‘another’s good,’ because it is related to our neighbour and does what is advantageous to another.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“If a man makes gain, his action is ascribed to no form of wickedness but injustice and his motive is the pleasure that arises from gain.”
– Atrributed to 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 if with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“When a distribution is made from the common funds of a partnership it will be according to the same ratio which the funds were put into the business by the partners and any violation of this kind of justice would be injustice.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“In some states they call judges mediators on the assumption that if they get what is intermediate they will get what is just.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Some think that reciprocity is just, as the Pythagoreans said, who defined justice as reciprocity. People want the justice of Rhadamanthus to mean this: Should a man suffer what he did, justice would be done. Hesiod. frag. Yet in many cases reciprocity and reciprocal justice are not in accord.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“In associations for exchange men are held together according to proportion and not on the basis of equal return. It is by the justice of proportionate requital that the city holds together. Men seek return either evil for evil or good for good and if they cannot do so there is no exchange and without exchange they cannot hold together.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“People are different and unequal and yet must be somehow equated. This is why all things that are exchanged must be comparable and to this end money has been introduced as an intermediate for it measures all things. In truth, demand holds things together and without it there would be no exchange.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Law exists for men between whom there is injustice. Injustice is the assigning of too much good to oneself and too little evil.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“When a man acts involuntarily he acts neither justly nor unjustly except incidentally. By voluntarily I mean any act in one’s power done with knowledge.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Acts done from anger are not done with malice aforethought, for it is the man who enraged him that starts the mischief.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The incontinent man does things he does not think he ought to do.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“When the virtuous man takes less than his share, he perhaps gets more than his share of some other good, i.e. honour. He suffers nothing contrary to his own wish, he is not unjustly treated and at most only suffers harm.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Men think that acting unjustly is in their power and therefore that being just is easy. But to act justly a certain state of character, which is not in our power, is necessary and not always easy to find.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The equitable is just, not legally just, but a correction of legal justice. This is because all law is universal, but about some things it is not possible to make a universal statement. When the law is silent the equitable settlement is just.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“We ought to choose that which is intermediate, neither the excess nor the defect; what is intermediate is determined by right rule.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The virtue of a thing relates to its proper work. What affirmation and negation are in thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in desire. Since moral virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, both good reasoning and proper desire must be present if the choice is to be good.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Every science is thought to be capable of being taught and its object capable of being learned. Unless a man believes in a certain way and is familiar with the starting points, his knowledge will be only incidental.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Practical wisdom is thought to be the mark of a man able to deliberate well about what is good and expedient to himself and conduce to the good life. Practical wisdom is a virtue and not an art.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“That which can be demonstrated scientifically is known whereas art and practical wisdom deal with that which is variable.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Wisdom must be intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“Reasoned knowledge and initiative wisdom are the highest by nature. This is why men like Thales and Anaxagoras had philosophic and not practical wisdom. When we see them ignorant to their own advantage and we say they knew things that are remarkable, admirable, difficult, and divine, but useless, it is because it was not human good that they sought.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“The man who is good at deliberating is the man capable of aiming with calculation at the best things attainable by action.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

“While young men may become geometers and mathematicians and such like things, young men of practical wisdom cannot be found. Wisdom is concerned not only with universals, but with the particulars, which only become familiar through the experience the young man has not.”
– Atrributed to Aristotle

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