Aristotle Quotes
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
To love someone is to identify with them.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.Aristotle
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
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.Aristotle
