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  • Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • Man by Nature desires to know.

  • All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

    "Metaphysics" by Aristotle, Book I, (980a.21),
  • Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

    Aristotle (2012). “Rhetoric”, p.84, Courier Corporation
  • No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

  • Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

  • Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

  • I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • All men by nature desire knowledge.

    "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,
  • It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle
  • All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

    Aristotle (1961). “The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick”
  • Wonder implies the desire to learn.

    Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.66, Aeterna Press
  • 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.

  • Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

  • It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle
  • The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

    "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,
  • All men desire by nature to know.

  • The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions
  • Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

  • We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

  • Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

    Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

    "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,
  • Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

    Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”
  • Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

  • The law is reason unaffected by desire.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle
  • Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.62, Aristotle
  • Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

  • If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press
  • .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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    Aristotle

    • Born: 384 BC
    • Died: 322 BC
    • Occupation: Philosopher