Аристотель: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)

Аристотель было древнегреческий философ, ученик Платона. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”

Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2

“Those who cannot face danger like men are the slaves of any invader.”

Aristotle книга Politics

Book VII, 15, 1334a
Politics

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

Источник: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 187

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

Whilst a paraphrase this is based off of Aristotle's writings as Aristotle stated "For instance, it is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal" in https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml Politics, III. V. 8.
Misattributed
This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; // In feelings, not in figures on a dial. // We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives // Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

This is actually from the poem "We live in deeds..." by Philip James Bailey. This explains the strange pattern of capitalization.
Misattributed

“For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.”

Aristotle Economics

1345a.20 http://artflx.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusGreekTexts&getid=1&query=Arist.%20Oec.%201345a.20, Economics (Oeconomica), Greek Texts and Translations, Perseus under PhiloLogic.
Economics

“Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.”

Aristotle книга Nicomachean Ethics

Book III, 5.12
Nicomachean Ethics
Вариант: Now not to know that it is from the exercise of activities on particular objects that states of character are produced is the mark of a thoroughly senseless person.

“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”

Aristotle книга Nicomachean Ethics

Book I, 1096a.16
Nicomachean Ethics

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”

Often given as a saying of Aristotle with no reference.
Disputed