Aristotle Quotes About Soul
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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it
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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.
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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
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The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body
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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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The soul is the form of the body
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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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