Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle Quote of the day

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

I wished it was raining, " he said."I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Try it again, " I said. "Kiss me.""No, " he said."Kis

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The many are more incorruptible than the few

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.

Learning is not child's play

I like Aristotle, but I don’t agree with his cosmological argument about god.

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.