247 Famous Quotes by Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers in history. He made significant contributions to a wide range of fields, including logic, ethics, and biology. Aristotle's approach emphasized the importance of reason and observation in understanding the world, and his work has had a profound influence on the development of Western philosophy and science. His legacy as a thinker and innovator continues to inspire scholars and scientists today. (Aristotle Biography).
Aristotle Famous Quotes
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. (Meaning)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. (Meaning)
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. (Meaning)
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Meaning)
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Meaning)
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Meaning)
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. (Meaning)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. (Meaning)
A friend to all is a friend to none. (Meaning)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Meaning)
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. (Meaning)
Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Meaning)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Meaning)
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (Meaning)
Hope is a waking dream. (Meaning)
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Meaning)
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. (Meaning)
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. (Meaning)
Well begun is half done. (Meaning)
The secret to humor is surprise. (Meaning)
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. (Meaning)
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. (Meaning)
We make war that we may live in peace. (Meaning)
The law is reason, free from passion. (Meaning)
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. (Meaning)
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Meaning)
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. (Meaning)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. (Meaning)
The soul never thinks without a picture. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. (Meaning)
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. (Meaning)
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. (Meaning)
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. (Meaning)
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. (Meaning)
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. (Meaning)
Wit is educated insolence. (Meaning)
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. (Meaning)
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Meaning)
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal. (Meaning)
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit. (Meaning)
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. (Meaning)
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. (Meaning)
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. (Meaning)
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. (Meaning)
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. (Meaning)
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom (Meaning)
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do. (Meaning)
We can't learn without pain. (Meaning)
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. (Meaning)
The hardest victory is the victory over self. (Meaning)
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. (Meaning)
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom (Meaning)
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do. (Meaning)
We can't learn without pain. (Meaning)
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. (Meaning)
The hardest victory is the victory over self. (Meaning)
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. (Meaning)
95% of everything you do is the result of habit. (Meaning)
Character is revealed through action. (Meaning)
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one (Meaning)
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. (Meaning)
Fortune favours the bold. (Meaning)
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health (Meaning)
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god. (Meaning)
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. (Meaning)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. (Meaning)
Through discipline comes freedom. (Meaning)
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. (Meaning)
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. (Meaning)
You are what you repeatedly do (Meaning)
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. (Meaning)
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. (Meaning)
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. (Meaning)
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. (Meaning)
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. (Meaning)
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. (Meaning)
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. (Meaning)
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. (Meaning)
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. (Meaning)
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Meaning)
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference. (Meaning)
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Meaning)
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. (Meaning)
No one loves the man whom he fears. (Meaning)
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. (Meaning)
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. (Meaning)
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. (Meaning)
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. (Meaning)
To love someone is to identify with them. (Meaning)
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience. (Meaning)
Philosophy begins with wonder. (Meaning)
Our characters are the result of our conduct. (Meaning)
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. (Meaning)
Happiness depends on ourselves. (Meaning)
Wit is well-bred insolence. (Meaning)
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. (Meaning)
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth (Meaning)
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. (Meaning)
The end of labor is to gain leisure. (Meaning)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. (Meaning)
A promise made must be a promise kept. (Meaning)
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. (Meaning)
Beauty is a gift of God. (Meaning)
It is no easy task to be good. (Meaning)
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. (Meaning)
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. (Meaning)
Bad men are full of repentance. (Meaning)
We deliberate not about ends, but about means. (Meaning)
The greatest victory is over self. (Meaning)
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. (Meaning)
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. (Meaning)
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Meaning)
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Meaning)
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. (Meaning)
Memory is the scribe of the soul. (Meaning)
Nature does nothing in vain. (Meaning)
Teaching is the highest form of understanding. (Meaning)
Nature operates in the shortest way possible. (Meaning)
Nothing is what rocks dream about (Meaning)
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (Meaning)
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. (Meaning)
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God. (Meaning)
Human beings are curious by nature. (Meaning)
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. (Meaning)
Law is mind without reason. (Meaning)
Men are good in but one way, but bad in many. (Meaning)
He who hath many friends hath none. (Meaning)
We are what we frequently do. (Meaning)
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. (Meaning)
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. (Meaning)
Man is by nature a political animal. (Meaning)
Beauty is the gift of God (Meaning)
Love is the cause of unity in all things. (Meaning)
The hand is the tool of tools. (Meaning)
All communication must lead to change (Meaning)
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. (Meaning)
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond. (Meaning)
Philosophy can make people sick. (Meaning)
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. (Meaning)
A friend is a second self. (Meaning)
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. (Meaning)
Evil draws men together. (Meaning)
The physician heals, Nature makes well. (Meaning)
Cruel is the strife of brothers. (Meaning)
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it (Meaning)
We are what we continually do. (Meaning)
We are what we repeatedly do. (Meaning)
All things are full of gods. (Meaning)
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. (Meaning)
Education is the best provision for old age. (Meaning)
The soul is the form of the body (Meaning)
Law is order, and good law is good order. (Meaning)
Friendship is essentially a partnership. (Meaning)
The law is reason unaffected by desire. (Meaning)
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. (Meaning)
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. (Meaning)
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. (Meaning)
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. (Meaning)
Art takes nature as its model. (Meaning)
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. (Meaning)
Happiness is the highest good (Meaning)
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. (Meaning)
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. (Meaning)
The first principle of all action is leisure. (Meaning)
Change in all things is sweet. (Meaning)
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. (Meaning)
Adventure is worthwhile. (Meaning)
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. (Meaning)
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. (Meaning)
To perceive is to suffer. (Meaning)
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. (Meaning)
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. (Meaning)
Evils draw men together. (Meaning)
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue (Meaning)
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. (Meaning)
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love. (Meaning)
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. (Meaning)
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end. (Meaning)
The gods too are fond of a joke. (Meaning)
[Hope is] the dream of a waking man. (Meaning)
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. (Meaning)
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy. (Meaning)
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. (Meaning)
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. (Meaning)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. (Meaning)
The basis of a democratic state is liberty (Meaning)
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. (Meaning)
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. (Meaning)
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. (Meaning)
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. (Meaning)
Wit is cultured insolence. (Meaning)
All men desire by nature to know. (Meaning)
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Hope is a waking dream.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Well begun is half done.
The secret to humor is surprise.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
We make war that we may live in peace.
The law is reason, free from passion.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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.
Change in all things is sweet.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
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.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Wit is educated insolence.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
― Aristotle Quotes
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