Aristotele: Frasi in inglese

Aristotele era filosofo e scienziato greco antico. Frasi in inglese.
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“All those… who discourse concerning nature, always subject a certain other nature of… elements, to the infinite… But no one of those who make the elements to be finite introduces infinity. Such, however, as make infinite elements, as Anaxagoras and Democritus, say that the infinite is continuous by contact. …Rationally, too, do all philosophers consider the infinite as a principle; for it cannot be in vain, nor can any other power be present with it than that of a principle: for all things are either the principle, or from the principle; but of the infinite there is no principle, since otherwise it would have an end. …it is also unbegotten and uncorruptible, as being a certain principle: for… end is the corruption of everything. …It likewise appears to comprehend and govern all things, as those assert who do not introduce other causes beside the infinite… It would seem also that this is divine: for it is immortal and indestructible, as Anaximander says, and most of the physiologists.”

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Aristotle libro Fisica

Book III, Ch. IV, pp. 152-155.
Physics

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

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Aristotle Retorica

Book II, 1389b.11
Rhetoric

“[T]he first philosophers, in investigating the truth and the nature of things, wandered, as if led by ignorance, into a certain… path. Hence, they say that no being is either generated or corrupted, because it is necessary that what is generated should be generated either from being or non-being: but both these are impossible; for neither can being be generated, since it already is; and from nothing, nothing can be generated… And thus… they said that there were not many things, but that being alone had a subsistence. …the ancient philosophers …through this ignorance added so much to their want of knowledge, as to fancy that nothing else was generated or had a being; but they subverted all generation.”

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Aristotle libro Fisica

Book I, Ch. IX, pp. 73-76.
Physics

“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited … and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”

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Aristotle libro Nicomachean Ethics

Book II, 1106b.28
Nicomachean Ethics

“The totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts.”

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Aristotle libro Metafisica

Book VIII, 1045a.8–10
Cf. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Common Notion 5: "τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον. [The whole is greater than the part.]"
Metaphysics

“Those who live in a cold climate and in [northern] Europe are full of spirit, but wanting in intelligence and skill; and therefore they keep their freedom, but have no political organization, and are incapable of ruling over others. Whereas the natives of Asia are intelligent and inventive, but they are wanting in spirit, and therefore they are always in a state of subjection and slavery. But the Hellenic race, which is situated between them, is likewise intermediate in character, being high-spirited and also intelligent. Hence it continues free, and is the best governed of any nation, and, if it could be formed into one state, would be able to rule the world.”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Book VII, 7, 1327b http://books.google.com/books?id=QiqGAAAAMAAJ, tr. Benjamian Jowett (1908) <br class="br">Politics

“And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

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Aristotle libro Nicomachean Ethics

Book X, 1177b.4
Nicomachean Ethics

“Law is order, and good law is good order.”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Book VII, 1326a.29
Politics

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

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Aristotle libro Poetics

1451b.6
Poetics

“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Book II, 1269a.4
Politics

“That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.”

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Aristotle libro Metafisica

982a16, Complete Works, vol. 2, p. 1554
Metaphysics

“It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.”

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Aristotle Retorica

Book I, 1355b.1
Rhetoric

“[B]ecause that which is finite is always bounded with reference to something… it is necessary that there should be no end… [N]umber also appears to be infinite, and mathematical magnitudes, and that which is beyond the heavens. And since that which is beyond is infinite, body also appears to be infinite, and it would seem that there are infinite worlds; for why is there rather void here than there? …If also there is a vacuum, and an infinite place, it is necessary that there should be an infinite body: for in things which have a perpetual subsistence, capacity differs nothing from being. The speculation of the infinite is, however, attended with doubt: for many impossibilities happen both to those who do not admit that it has a subsistence, and to those who do. …It is …especially the province of a natural philosopher to consider if there be a sensible infinite magnitude.”

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Aristotle libro Fisica

Book III, Ch. V, p. 156.
Physics

“They should rule who are able to rule best.”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Book II, 1273b.5
Politics

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely [in all respects].”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Aristotle, Politics, Book V 1301a.29-31
Politics

“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

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Aristotle libro Posterior Analytics

I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics

“The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.”

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Aristotle libro Metafisica

982a.15, W. Ross, trans., The Basic Works of Aristotle (2001), p. 691.
Metaphysics

“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”

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Aristotle libro Nicomachean Ethics

Book VIII, 1155a.26
Nicomachean Ethics

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

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Aristotle libro Politica

Book II, 1269a.9
Politics