350 BC · Skopia

Showing 25 works across all media from the 350 BC

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.7

Political literature · Philosophical literature

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Metaphysics

350 BC · 459 pages

Aristotle asks what a thing most fundamentally is, and the answer runs through matter, form, and cause to a god who moves the whole world simply by being loved.

★ 7.6

Nonfiction · Practical philosophy

The Nicomachean Ethics

350 BC · 329 pages

Everyone wants to be happy. Aristotle's answer is that happiness is not a feeling but a life of acting well, and that you become brave only by doing brave things.

★ 7.6

Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Art of Rhetoric

350 BC · 291 pages

Persuasion runs on three things, Aristotle found: the speaker's character, the listener's emotions, and the argument. He shows how to make an audience angry or ashamed, and you notice the machinery everywhere afterward.

★ 7.5

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 7.2

Philosophical literature

This only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC

★ 7.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 5.7

Scientific literature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

350 BC

★ 5.6

Philosophical literature

The soul is in a way all existing things.

On the Soul · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Well begun is half done.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The guest will judge better of a feast than a cook.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

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

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

350 BC

★ 2.3

Scientific literature

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.

Physics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they might be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Scientific literature

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

350 BC

★ 2.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC

★ 1.6

Scientific literature

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that-agent and patient at once.

Physics · 350 BC

★ 1.3