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thinking views order
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good. Aristotle
truth history giving
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
two way revolution
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
two evil soul
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.
two soul half
These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.
two soul principles
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
thinking knowing soul
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.
thinking imagination soul
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
thinking two soul
There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
thinking psychics soul
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
two soul movement
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
thinking doe human-nature
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
two numbers government
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.
taken unjust stones
When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
tyrants people three
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
two soul body
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
thinking animal order
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.
two three ontology
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
truth honesty ethics
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
time philosophical youth
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
tragedy action ends
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
true-friend two people
A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
teaching justice understanding
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
taken men care
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
two inspire quality
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
taste beast mass
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
thinking desire divine
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
time power lapses
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
thinking should
You should never think without an image.
teacher appreciation reaching
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
thieves crime rascals
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
truth mind excellence
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
thinking justice conscious
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.