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Aristotle Quotes
- All men by nature desire knowledge. ― Aristotle
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ― Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ― Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ― Aristotle
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ― Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ― Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ― Aristotle
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ― Aristotle
A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state. ― Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ― Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ― Aristotle
Quality is not an act; it is a habit. ― Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none. ― Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ― Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ― Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ― Aristotle
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. ― Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream. ― Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny. ― Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ― Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ― Aristotle
All human beings, by nature, desire to know. ― Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ― Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ― Aristotle
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ― Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves. ― Aristotle
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. ― Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet. ― Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ― Aristotle
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ― Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ― Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ― Aristotle
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. ― Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ― Aristotle
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. ― Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ― Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer. ― Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ― Aristotle
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ― Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ― Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ― Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ― Aristotle
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ― Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. ― Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. ― Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ― Aristotle
Each man judges well the things he knows. ― Aristotle
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ― Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ― Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ― Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ― Aristotle
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ― Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ― Aristotle
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ― Aristotle
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. ― Aristotle
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. ― Aristotle
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ― Aristotle
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. ― Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ― Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ― Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ― Aristotle
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ― Aristotle
One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. ― Aristotle
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. ― Aristotle
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons. ― Aristotle
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. ― Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership. ― Aristotle
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ― Aristotle
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ― Aristotle
Happiness is activity. ― Aristotle
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ― Aristotle
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. ― Aristotle
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. ― Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ― Aristotle
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ― Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ― Aristotle
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. ― Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. ― Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ― Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. ― Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence. ― Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ― Aristotle
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ― Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ― Aristotle
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way. ― Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly. ― Aristotle
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something. ― Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ― Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ― Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity. ― Aristotle
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ― Aristotle
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. ― Aristotle
Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies. ― Aristotle
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. ― Aristotle
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ― Aristotle
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. ― Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ― Aristotle
Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ― Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace. ― Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. ― Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ― Aristotle
The Law is Reason free from Passion. ― Aristotle
A friend is a second self. ― Aristotle
Most people would rather give than get affection. ― Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ― Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ― Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise. ― Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ― Aristotle
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. ― Aristotle
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ― Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ― Aristotle
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. ― Aristotle
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. ― Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ― Aristotle
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism. ― Aristotle
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. ― Aristotle
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. ― Aristotle
The actuality of thought is life. ― Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ― Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ― Aristotle
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. ― Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke. ― Aristotle
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar. ― Aristotle
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. ― Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold. ― Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ― Aristotle
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. ― Aristotle
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is. ― Aristotle
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. ― Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ― Aristotle
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ― Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ― Aristotle
Through discipline comes freedom. ― Aristotle
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. ― Aristotle
To love someone is to identify with them. ― Aristotle
To the query, what is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ― Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. ― Aristotle
We cannot learn without pain. ― Aristotle
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. ― Aristotle
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. ― Aristotle
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ― Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ― Aristotle
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? ― Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ― Aristotle
