Famous Quotes by Aristotle
Below are famous quotes by Aristotle - Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC).
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
A friend is a second self.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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.
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.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Law is mind without reason.
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.
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.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The gods too are fond of a joke
The gods too are fond of a joke.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
To love someone is to identify with them.
To perceive is to suffer.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Wit is educated insolence.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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