Aristotle Quotes

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

The probable is what usually happens.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Man by nature wants to know.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

All men desire by nature to know.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.