La définition fameuse de la tragédie par Aristote, exposant la notion de catharsis.
Poétique
Aristote citations célèbres
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Aristote
Politique
Aristote Citations
Éthique à Nicomaque
Métaphysique
Organon, V - Topiques
Organon, V - Topiques
Définitions du citoyen et de la cité.
Politique
Politique
“Le bonheur, avons-nous dit, est une certaine activité de l’âme conforme à la vertu.”
Éthique à Nicomaque
La Politique
Aristote: Citations en anglais
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”
I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics
982a.15, W. Ross, trans., The Basic Works of Aristotle (2001), p. 691.
Metaphysics
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
Book II, 1269a.9
Politics
“Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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.”
Book VII, 15, 1334a
Politics
“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
This is actually from the poem "We live in deeds..." by Philip James Bailey. This explains the strange pattern of capitalization.
Misattributed
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
Book III, 5.12
Nicomachean Ethics
Variante: 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.”
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
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I), Bk. 1, Chapter III
Source: Politics, III. V. 8., https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml