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Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute. -- Aristotle.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice. -- Aristotle.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man -- Aristotle.
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies. -- Aristotle.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. -- Aristotle.
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people. -- Aristotle.
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts. -- Aristotle.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. -- Aristotle.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. -- Aristotle.
Quality is not an an act, it's a habit. -- Aristotle.
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty. -- Aristotle.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is. -- Aristotle.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. -- Aristotle.
For desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition. -- Aristotle.
The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years. -- Aristotle.
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. -- Aristotle.
Those who act receive the prizes. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever ... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue. -- Aristotle.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle.
Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him. -- Aristotle.
There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning. -- Aristotle.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function. -- Aristotle.
One Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged. -- Aristotle.
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. -- Aristotle.
The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. -- Aristotle.
Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity. -- Aristotle.
And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest. -- Aristotle.
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos-
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health;
But pleasantest is it to win what we love. -- Aristotle.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well. -- Aristotle.
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options. -- Aristotle.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. -- Aristotle.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. -- Aristotle.
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south. -- Aristotle.
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good. -- Aristotle.
They who are to be judges must also be performers. -- Aristotle.
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number. -- Aristotle.
It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble. -- Aristotle.
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body. -- Aristotle.
By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody. -- Aristotle.
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust. -- Aristotle.
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. -- Aristotle.
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. -- Aristotle.
If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition. -- Aristotle.
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature. -- Aristotle.
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion. -- Aristotle.
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. -- Aristotle.
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. -- Aristotle.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. -- Aristotle.
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. -- Aristotle.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. -- Aristotle.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. -- Aristotle.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. -- Aristotle.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace. -- Aristotle.
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. -- Aristotle.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others. -- Aristotle.
Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [ ... ] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing. -- Aristotle.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter. -- Aristotle.
The basis of a democratic state is liberty -- Aristotle.
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide. -- Aristotle.
Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
To perceive is to suffer. -- Aristotle.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave ... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness. -- Aristotle.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. -- Aristotle.
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just? -- Aristotle.
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts. -- Aristotle.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold -- Aristotle.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable. -- Aristotle.
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind. -- Aristotle.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. -- Aristotle.
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. -- Aristotle.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them. -- Aristotle.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. -- Aristotle.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice. -- Aristotle.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. -- Aristotle.
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it -- Aristotle.
Further, the orator should be able to prove opposites, as in logical arguments; -- Aristotle.
Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. -- Aristotle.
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises. -- Aristotle.
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. -- Aristotle.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know. -- Aristotle.
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong. -- Aristotle.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. -- Aristotle.
We become brave by doing brave acts. -- Aristotle.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do -- Aristotle.
Happiness is the highest good -- Aristotle.
Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at. -- Aristotle.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and -- Aristotle.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish. -- Aristotle.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ... -- Aristotle.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. -- Aristotle.
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever. -- Aristotle.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. -- Aristotle.
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest. -- Aristotle.
To Aristotle or to Plato the State is, above all, a large and powerful educative agency which gives the individual increased opportunities of self-development and greater capacities for the enjoyment of life. -- Aristotle.
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy. -- Aristotle.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation. -- Aristotle.
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all. -- Aristotle.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. -- Aristotle.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves. -- Aristotle.
For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations. -- Aristotle.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing. -- Aristotle.
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all. -- Aristotle.
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness -- Aristotle.
Again, Practical Wisdom and Excellence of the Moral character are very closely united; since the Principles of Practical Wisdom are in accordance with the Moral Virtues and these are right when they accord with Practical Wisdom. -- Aristotle.
Virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence. -- Aristotle.
Moral experience - the actual possession and exercise of good character - is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them. -- Aristotle.
For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain. -- Aristotle.
A science must deal with a subject and its properties. -- Aristotle.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. -- Aristotle.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world -- Aristotle.
The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing. -- Aristotle.
The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind. -- Aristotle.
Not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system. -- Aristotle.
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange ... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship. -- Aristotle.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. -- Aristotle.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. -- Aristotle.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. -- Aristotle.
Evil brings men together. -- Aristotle.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. -- Aristotle.
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. -- Aristotle.
Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed. -- Aristotle.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male. -- Aristotle.
I seek to bring forth what you almost already know. -- Aristotle.
Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods. -- Aristotle.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth. -- Aristotle.
Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more will the liberal man take from wrong sources; for such taking is not characteristic of the man who sets no store by wealth. -- Aristotle.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. -- Aristotle.
Happiness depends on ourselves. -- Aristotle.
Nature does nothing in vain. -- Aristotle.
All people by nature desire to know. An example of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. -- Aristotle.
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. -- Aristotle.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle.
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. -- Aristotle.
Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God -- Aristotle.
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it. -- Aristotle.
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible. -- Aristotle.
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. -- Aristotle.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. -- Aristotle.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. -- Aristotle.
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it. -- Aristotle.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man. -- Aristotle.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it -- Aristotle.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar. -- Aristotle.
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet. -- Aristotle.
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual. -- Aristotle.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -- Aristotle.
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course. -- Aristotle.
There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance. -- Aristotle.
For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit. -- Aristotle.
It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion. -- Aristotle.
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator. -- Aristotle.
History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular. -- Aristotle.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure -- Aristotle.
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained. -- Aristotle.
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just. -- Aristotle.
Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite. -- Aristotle.
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. -- Aristotle.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is activity. -- Aristotle.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. -- Aristotle.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. -- Aristotle.
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. -- Aristotle.
No one loves the man whom he fears. -- Aristotle.
In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. -- Aristotle.
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. -- Aristotle.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances. -- Aristotle.
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete. -- Aristotle.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle.
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction. -- 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.
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.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. -- Aristotle.
Men create the gods after their own images. -- Aristotle.
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. -- Aristotle.
Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars. -- Aristotle.
Those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality. -- Aristotle.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing. -- Aristotle.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. -- Aristotle.
Aristotle insists that habituation, not teaching, is the route to moral virtue (II. 1). We must practise doing good actions, not just read about virtue. -- Aristotle.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. -- Aristotle.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. -- Aristotle.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' -- Aristotle.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. -- Aristotle.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding. -- Aristotle.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. -- Aristotle.
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is a sort of action. -- Aristotle.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself. -- Aristotle.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. -- Aristotle.
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes. -- Aristotle.
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness); -- Aristotle.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole. -- Aristotle.
Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially. -- Aristotle.
Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth. -- Aristotle.
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. -- Aristotle.
How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge? -- 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.
Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged. -- Aristotle.
The fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability. -- Aristotle.
Beauty is the gift of God -- Aristotle.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them ... -- Aristotle.
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself. -- Aristotle.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. -- Aristotle.
For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways? -- Aristotle.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. -- Aristotle.
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is activity of soul. -- Aristotle.
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII) -- Aristotle.
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies. -- Aristotle.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. -- Aristotle.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. -- Aristotle.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. -- Aristotle.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue. -- Aristotle.
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business. -- Aristotle.
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed. -- Aristotle.
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. -- Aristotle.
Everyone honors the wise. -- Aristotle.
Education begins at the level of the learner. -- Aristotle.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. -- Aristotle.
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia. -- Aristotle.
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one -- Aristotle.
He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life. -- Aristotle.
They should rule who are able to rule best. -- Aristotle.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. -- Aristotle.
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved). -- Aristotle.
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit. -- Aristotle.
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. -- Aristotle.
[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate. -- Aristotle.
To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is a quality of the soul ... not a function of one's material circumstances. -- Aristotle.
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action. -- Aristotle.
A poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses, -- Aristotle.
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
sources. -- Aristotle.
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. -- Aristotle.
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle.
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. -- Aristotle.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. -- Aristotle.
Every great genius has an admixture of madness. -- Aristotle.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. -- Aristotle.
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has. -- Aristotle.
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself -- Aristotle.
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. -- Aristotle.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. -- Aristotle.
For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present
[1071b] -- Aristotle.
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. -- Aristotle.
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. -- Aristotle.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. -- Aristotle.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -- Aristotle.
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc. -- Aristotle.
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. -- Aristotle.
In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law. -- Aristotle.
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge. -- Aristotle.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else. -- Aristotle.
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up. -- Aristotle.
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it. -- Aristotle.
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. -- Aristotle.
Character is revealed through action. -- Aristotle.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. -- Aristotle.
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues. -- Aristotle.
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards. -- Aristotle.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. -- Aristotle.
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this. -- Aristotle.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. -- Aristotle.
The life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for. -- Aristotle.
I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. -- Aristotle.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. -- Aristotle.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages. -- Aristotle.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. -- Aristotle.
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state. -- Aristotle.
They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. -- Aristotle.
we cannot be prudent without being good. -- Aristotle.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. -- Aristotle.
It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen. -- Aristotle.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. -- Aristotle.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty. -- Aristotle.
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of. -- Aristotle.
wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It -- Aristotle.
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name. -- Aristotle.
Where the laws are not authoritative demagogues arise. For the populace becomes a monarch when it turns from many into a single composite, since the many are in authority not as particular persons but all together. -- Aristotle.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time. -- Aristotle.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. -- Aristotle.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. -- Aristotle.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action -- Aristotle.
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker. -- Aristotle.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. -- Aristotle.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. -- Aristotle.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it. -- Aristotle.
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so. -- Aristotle.
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit. -- Aristotle.
Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. -- Aristotle.
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness. -- Aristotle.
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself. -- Aristotle.
95% of everything you do is the result of habit. -- Aristotle.
The good of the individual by himself is certainly desirable enough, but that of a nation and of cities is nobler and more divine. -- Aristotle.
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. -- Aristotle.
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief. -- Aristotle.
Education is the best provision for old age -- Aristotle.
If there are several virtues the best and most complete or perfect of them will be the happiest one. An excellent human will be a person good at living life, living well and 'beautifully'. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. -- Aristotle.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose -- Aristotle.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. -- Aristotle.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire. -- Aristotle.
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals. -- Aristotle.
Bad people ... are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good. -- Aristotle.
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved. -- Aristotle.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -- Aristotle.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. -- Aristotle.
What a society honors will be cultivated. -- Aristotle.
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen. -- Aristotle.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage. -- Aristotle.
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize. -- Aristotle.
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. -- Aristotle.
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios. -- Aristotle.
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character. -- Aristotle.
There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean. -- Aristotle.
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. -- Aristotle.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart. -- Aristotle.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. -- Aristotle.
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand. -- Aristotle.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. -- Aristotle.
Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds. The first depends upon the moral character of the speaker, the second upon putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind, the third upon the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove. [4] -- Aristotle.
Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul. -- Aristotle.
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. -- Aristotle.
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise. -- Aristotle.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. -- Aristotle.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses. -- Aristotle.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. -- Aristotle.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. -- Aristotle.
the actuality of thought is life -- Aristotle.
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it. -- Aristotle.
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked. -- Aristotle.
The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's. -- Aristotle.
Being cannot be one in form, though it may be in what it is made of. (Even some of the physicists hold it to be one in the latter way, though not in the former.) Man obviously differs from horse in form, and contraries from each other. -- Aristotle.
All thinkers then agree in making the contraries principles, both those who describe the All as one and unmoved (for even Parmenides treats hot and cold as principles under the names of fire and earth) and those too who use the rare and the dense. (20) -- Aristotle.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five. -- Aristotle.
Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems to agree with them, and therefore they are taken for truth. -- Aristotle.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. -- Aristotle.
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions. -- Aristotle.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. -- Aristotle.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. -- Aristotle.
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself. -- Aristotle.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity. -- Aristotle.
The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold. -- Aristotle.
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity. -- Aristotle.
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy. -- Aristotle.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. -- Aristotle.
He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy. -- Aristotle.
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy. -- Aristotle.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. -- Aristotle.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few. -- Aristotle.
For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy of the needy: none of them common good of all. -- Aristotle.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy. -- Aristotle.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. -- Aristotle.
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence. -- Aristotle.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. -- Aristotle.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. -- Aristotle.
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ... both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ... but with regard to what happiness is they differ. -- Aristotle.
And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state. -- Aristotle.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. -- Aristotle.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place. -- Aristotle.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. -- Aristotle.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. -- Aristotle.
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny. -- Aristotle.
And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now. -- Aristotle.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. -- Aristotle.
Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear. -- Aristotle.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. -- Aristotle.
Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear. -- Aristotle.
The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III -- Aristotle.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues -- Aristotle.
We would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature. -- Aristotle.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet. -- Aristotle.
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. -- Aristotle.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things. -- Aristotle.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. -- Aristotle.
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects. -- Aristotle.
Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness -- Aristotle.
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event. -- Aristotle.
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. -- Aristotle.
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law. -- Aristotle.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. -- Aristotle.
If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. -- Aristotle.
Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature. -- Aristotle.
One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. -- Aristotle.
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day. -- Aristotle.
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought ... The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful. -- Aristotle.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own. -- Aristotle.
Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do. -- Aristotle.
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day. -- Aristotle.
Man is his desire. -- Aristotle.
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it. -- Aristotle.
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. -- Aristotle.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. -- Aristotle.
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. -- Aristotle.
Wit is well-bred insolence. -- Aristotle.
In justice is all virtues found in sum. -- Aristotle.
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. -- Aristotle.
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond. -- Aristotle.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. -- Aristotle.
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. -- Aristotle.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies -- Aristotle.
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant? -- Aristotle.
Good cannot be a single and universal general notion; if it were, it would not be predictable in all the categories, but only in one. -- Aristotle.
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be. -- Aristotle.
Nature creates nothing without a purpose. -- Aristotle.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity. -- Aristotle.
Adventure is worthwhile. -- Aristotle.
One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all. -- Aristotle.
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. -- Aristotle.
All men desire by nature to know. -- Aristotle.
We're what we repeatedly do. -- Aristotle.
By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay. -- Aristotle.
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children. -- Aristotle.
Thus we must advance from generalities to particulars; for it is a whole that is best known to sense-perception, (25) and a generality is a kind of whole, comprehending many things within it, like parts. -- Aristotle.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy -- Aristotle.
The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government. -- Aristotle.
It is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it ... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office. -- Aristotle.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. -- Aristotle.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- Aristotle.
the first principle of all action is leisure. -- Aristotle.
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something -- Aristotle.
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation. -- Aristotle.
Virtue lies in moderation -- Aristotle.
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. -- Aristotle.
We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is a state of activity. -- Aristotle.
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle.
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. -- Aristotle.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. -- Aristotle.
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. -- Aristotle.
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased; -- Aristotle.
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. -- Aristotle.
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end. -- Aristotle.
A friend to all is a friend to none. -- Aristotle.
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited. -- Aristotle.
For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas the proportionate amount produces, increases, and preserves it. -- Aristotle.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. -- Aristotle.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. -- Aristotle.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. -- Aristotle.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible. -- Aristotle.
Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not! -- Aristotle.
Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil. -- Aristotle.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. -- Aristotle.
mean is the cause -- Aristotle.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. -- Aristotle.
Human beings are curious by nature. -- Aristotle.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence ... makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. -- Aristotle.
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean -- Aristotle.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain -- Aristotle.
The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short. -- Aristotle.
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? -- Aristotle.
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. -- Aristotle.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no. -- Aristotle.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. -- Aristotle.
The law is reason unaffected by desire. -- Aristotle.
We work to earn our leisure. -- Aristotle.
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG. -- Aristotle.
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship. -- Aristotle.
Nothing is what rocks dream about -- Aristotle.
It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center. -- Aristotle.
Wonder implies the desire to learn. -- Aristotle.
The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul. -- Aristotle.
Friendship is essentially a partnership. -- Aristotle.
men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'; -- Aristotle.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get. -- Aristotle.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus. -- Aristotle.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. -- Aristotle.
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul. -- Aristotle.
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle.
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man. -- Aristotle.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. -- Aristotle.
Philosophy begins with wonder. -- Aristotle.
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. -- Aristotle.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. -- Aristotle.
Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point. -- Aristotle.
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. -- Aristotle.
We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion. -- Aristotle.
We physicists, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion - which is indeed made plain by induction. -- Aristotle.
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness. -- Aristotle.
He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train. -- Aristotle.
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook -- Aristotle.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. -- Aristotle.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. -- Aristotle.
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. -- Aristotle.
Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims. -- Aristotle.
Only you can take you to Funkytown. -- Aristotle.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. -- Aristotle.
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul. -- Aristotle.
Your happiness depends on you alone. -- Aristotle.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. -- Aristotle.
Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. -- Aristotle.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. -- Aristotle.
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. -- Aristotle.
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably ... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life. -- Aristotle.
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul. -- Aristotle.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly -- Aristotle.
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved. -- Aristotle.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action. -- Aristotle.
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine. -- Aristotle.
You are what you do repeatedly, -- Aristotle.
Happiness also requires external goods in addition. -- Aristotle.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. -- Aristotle.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. -- Aristotle.
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future -- Aristotle.
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war. -- Aristotle.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities. -- Aristotle.
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible. -- Aristotle.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. -- Aristotle.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls. -- Aristotle.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit. -- Aristotle.
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end. -- Aristotle.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue. -- Aristotle.
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off. -- Aristotle.
Man by nature wants to know. -- Aristotle.
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much. -- Aristotle.
When ... we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings. -- Aristotle.
The Law is Reason free from Passion. -- Aristotle.
A human being is a naturally political [animal]. -- Aristotle.
The probable is what usually happens. -- Aristotle.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large. -- Aristotle.
Wit is cultured insolence. -- Aristotle.
it seems impossible for all things to be one. -- Aristotle.
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. -- Aristotle.
Worms are the intestines of the earth. -- Aristotle.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. -- Aristotle.
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. -- Aristotle.
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials. -- Aristotle.
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal. -- Aristotle.
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. -- Aristotle.
Either a beast or a god. -- Aristotle.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen -- Aristotle.
Memory is the scribe of the soul -- 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.
Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general. -- Aristotle.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. -- Aristotle.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. -- Aristotle.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. -- Aristotle.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness -- Aristotle.
We are what we reblog. -- Aristotle.
The laughable is a species of what is disgraceful. -- Aristotle.
Aristotle states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens put together. Tactfully, -- Aristotle.
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. -- Aristotle.
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. -- Aristotle.
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. -- Aristotle.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. -- Aristotle.
We Can't learn without pain. -- Aristotle.
Hence, in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens -- Aristotle.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. -- Aristotle.
For instance, it is not the function of medicine to restore a patient to health, but only to promote this end as far as possible; for even those whose recovery is impossible may be properly treated. -- Aristotle.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. -- Aristotle.
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them. -- Aristotle.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -- Aristotle.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest. -- Aristotle.
Hope is a waking dream. -- Aristotle.
The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god. -- Aristotle.
Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim. -- Aristotle.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 -- Aristotle.
Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person -- Aristotle.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science ... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. -- Aristotle.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children. -- Aristotle.
The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. -- Aristotle.
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort -- Aristotle.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. -- Aristotle.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning. -- Aristotle.
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 -- Aristotle.
A vivid image compels the whole body to follow. -- Aristotle.
At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete. -- Aristotle.
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health -- Aristotle.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure. -- Aristotle.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life. -- Aristotle.
Philosophy can make people sick. -- Aristotle.
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious. -- Aristotle.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. -- Aristotle.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. -- Aristotle.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. -- Aristotle.
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things. -- Aristotle.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good. -- Aristotle.
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life. -- Aristotle.
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle.
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech. -- Aristotle.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. -- Aristotle.
Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life ... even nicotine cravings -- Aristotle.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. -- Aristotle.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force. -- Aristotle.
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words. -- Aristotle.
Through discipline comes freedom. -- Aristotle.
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others. -- Aristotle.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. -- Aristotle.
And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger! -- Aristotle.
I KNOW WHAT I DONT KNOW. -- Aristotle.
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together. -- Aristotle.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for. -- Aristotle.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. -- Aristotle.
The ultimate end ... is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. -- Aristotle.
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once. -- Aristotle.
Bad men are full of repentance. -- Aristotle.
We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them. -- Aristotle.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute. -- Aristotle.
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. -- Aristotle.
Love is the cause of unity in all things. -- Aristotle.
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge? -- Aristotle.
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause. -- Aristotle.
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 ... -- Aristotle.
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which. -- Aristotle.
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. -- Aristotle.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. -- Aristotle.
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. -- Aristotle.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause. -- Aristotle.
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula. -- Aristotle.
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself. -- Aristotle.
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause. -- Aristotle.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice. -- Aristotle.
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles. -- Aristotle.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles. -- Aristotle.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. -- Aristotle.
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth. -- Aristotle.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. -- Aristotle.
The Good of Man comes to be "a working of the Soul in the way of Excellence," or, if Excellence admits of degrees, in the way of the best and most perfect Excellence. -- Aristotle.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face. -- Aristotle.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole. -- Aristotle.
Youth loves honor and victory more than money. -- Aristotle.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. -- Aristotle.
We are what we repeatedly do. -- Aristotle.
The greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected. -- Aristotle.
The physician heals, Nature makes well. -- Aristotle.
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. -- Aristotle.
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment -- Aristotle.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. -- Aristotle.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. -- Aristotle.
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. -- Aristotle.
Imagination is a sort of faint perception. -- Aristotle.
Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize. -- Aristotle.
For all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good. -- Aristotle.
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. -- Aristotle.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. -- Aristotle.
The hardest victory is the victory over self. -- Aristotle.
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice. -- Aristotle.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. -- Aristotle.
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action ... -- Aristotle.
In general, then, pleasure is not good, because every pleasure is a perceptible process of coming into its nature; but no coming-into-being belongs to the same class as the ends we pursue - for -- Aristotle.
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy, -- Aristotle.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return. -- Aristotle.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. -- Aristotle.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education. -- Aristotle.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. -- Aristotle.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. -- Aristotle.
The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure; -- Aristotle.
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction -- Aristotle.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. -- Aristotle.
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. -- Aristotle.
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body. -- Aristotle.
To feel these feelings at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in the right manner, is to feel the best amount of them, which is the mean amount - and the best amount is of course the mark of virtue. -- Aristotle.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. -- Aristotle.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. -- Aristotle.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. -- Aristotle.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -- Aristotle.
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods. -- Aristotle.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle. -- Aristotle.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. -- Aristotle.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them. -- Aristotle.
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. -- Aristotle.
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense. -- Aristotle.
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -- Aristotle.
Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise. -- Aristotle.
For we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways. -- Aristotle.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. -- Aristotle.
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one. -- Aristotle.
All things are full of gods. -- Aristotle.
Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating. -- Aristotle.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. -- Aristotle.
Moral virtue is a mean ... between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; ... it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything. -- Aristotle.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness. -- Aristotle.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. -- Aristotle.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness -- Aristotle.
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. -- Aristotle.
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole. -- Aristotle.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. -- Aristotle.
Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold. -- Aristotle.
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher. -- Aristotle.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. -- Aristotle.
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue. -- Aristotle.
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. -- Aristotle.
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole ... by the mingling of the most contrary principles. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue -- Aristotle.
Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder; -- Aristotle.
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too. -- Aristotle.
For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves. -- Aristotle.
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. -- Aristotle.
The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up. -- Aristotle.
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative -- Aristotle.
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance. -- Aristotle.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties. -- Aristotle.
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete. -- Aristotle.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. -- Aristotle.
Anybody can get hit over the head. -- Aristotle.
There is always something new coming out of Africa. -- Aristotle.
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. -- Aristotle.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. -- Aristotle.
The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers. -- Aristotle.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. -- Aristotle.
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many. -- Aristotle.
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents -- Aristotle.
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. -- Aristotle.
Between friends there is no need of justice. -- Aristotle.
As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy. -- Aristotle.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. -- Aristotle.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle -- Aristotle.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. -- Aristotle.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government. -- Aristotle.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -- Aristotle.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. -- Aristotle.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial. -- Aristotle.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it -- Aristotle.
For [people] are good18 in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad -- Aristotle.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good. -- Aristotle.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -- Aristotle.
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed. -- Aristotle.
Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle.
Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature. -- Aristotle.
Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act. -- Aristotle.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few. -- Aristotle.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle.
Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute. -- Aristotle.
A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies. -- Aristotle.
Change in all things is sweet. -- Aristotle.
Most people would rather give than get affection. -- Aristotle.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature -- Aristotle.
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. -- Aristotle.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. -- Aristotle.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. -- Aristotle.
All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education of youth. -- Aristotle.
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing. -- Aristotle.
The present work is, then, the masterpiece of one particular literary genre that flourished in the fourth century BC in Greece, that of the rhetorical manual, and it is a remarkable fact that it should have fallen to Aristotle to write it. It -- Aristotle.
He who hath many friends hath none. -- Aristotle.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. -- Aristotle.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. -- Aristotle.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally. -- Aristotle.
A man is the origin of his action. -- Aristotle.
Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law. -- Aristotle.
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make. -- Aristotle.
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder. -- Aristotle.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. -- Aristotle.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. -- Aristotle.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. -- Aristotle.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end. -- Aristotle.
Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment; -- Aristotle.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. -- Aristotle.
The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle.
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. -- Aristotle.
What we expect, that we find. -- Aristotle.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. -- Aristotle.
Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal. -- Aristotle.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are
the slaves of their attackers. -- Aristotle.
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. -- Aristotle.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. -- Aristotle.
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. -- Aristotle.
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means. -- Aristotle.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence. -- Aristotle.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. -- Aristotle.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. -- Aristotle.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. -- Aristotle.
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. -- Aristotle.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. -- Aristotle.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. -- Aristotle.
Our characters are the result of our conduct. -- Aristotle.
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good". -- Aristotle.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. -- Aristotle.
For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future. -- Aristotle.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. -- Aristotle.
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously. -- Aristotle.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -- Aristotle.
We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic. -- Aristotle.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy. -- Aristotle.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. -- 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.
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. -- Aristotle.
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. -- Aristotle.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. -- Aristotle.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. -- Aristotle.
The complete man must work, study and wrestle. -- Aristotle.
It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration. -- Aristotle.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind -- Aristotle.
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together. -- Aristotle.
Happiness depends upon ourselves. -- Aristotle.
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous. -- Aristotle.
Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner. -- Aristotle.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort. -- Aristotle.
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. -- Aristotle.
To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd -- Aristotle.
Friendship is communion. -- Aristotle.
"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell" -- Aristotle.
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons. -- Aristotle.
Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must have been brought up in good habits. -- Aristotle.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse. -- Aristotle.
People generally despise where they flatter. -- Aristotle.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. -- Aristotle.
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. -- Aristotle.
Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all -- Aristotle.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after. -- Aristotle.
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' -- Aristotle.
Baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It -- Aristotle.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave. -- Aristotle.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. -- Aristotle.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. -- Aristotle.
Art takes nature as its model. -- Aristotle.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. -- Aristotle.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. -- Aristotle.
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself. -- Aristotle.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers. -- Aristotle.
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution. -- Aristotle.
Human beings are by nature political animals -- Aristotle.
If something's bound to happen, it will
happen.. Right time, right person, and for
the best reason. -- Aristotle.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- Aristotle.
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth. -- Aristotle.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. -- Aristotle.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers. -- Aristotle.
What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description ... we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason. -- Aristotle.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms -- Aristotle.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us -- Aristotle.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. -- Aristotle.
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement. -- Aristotle.
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
-- Aristotle.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence. -- Aristotle.
Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. -- Aristotle.
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference. -- Aristotle.
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. -- Aristotle.
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. -- Aristotle.
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few -- Aristotle.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience. -- Aristotle.
Our actions determine our dispositions. -- Aristotle.
For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs. -- Aristotle.
In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all. -- Aristotle.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. -- Aristotle.
For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use -- Aristotle.
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean. -- Aristotle.
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. -- Aristotle.
What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17) -- Aristotle.
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. -- Aristotle.
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. -- Aristotle.
To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult. -- Aristotle.
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn. -- Aristotle.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle.
The student of politics must study the soul. -- Aristotle.
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist. -- Aristotle.
A man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence. -- Aristotle.
We make war that we may live in peace. -- Aristotle.
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones. -- Aristotle.
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily. -- Aristotle.
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. -- Aristotle.
Men ought not to labor at the same time with their minds and with their bodies; for the two kinds of labor are opposed to one another; the labor of the body impedes the mind, and the labor of the mind the body. -- Aristotle.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. -- Aristotle.
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. -- Aristotle.
For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not. -- Aristotle.
The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. -- Aristotle.
Now we say that (a) the continuous is one or that (b) the indivisible is one, or (c) things are said to be 'one', when their essence is one and the same, as 'liquor' and 'drink'. If (a) their One is one in the sense of continuous, it is many, (10) for the continuous is divisible ad infinitum. -- Aristotle.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. -- Aristotle.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. -- Aristotle.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. -- Aristotle.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -- Aristotle.
The life of the mind is only open to rich people. -- Aristotle.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. -- Aristotle.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. -- Aristotle.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -- Aristotle.
That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number, line, and shape can be defined without change but flesh, bone, and man cannot. They are like sbub nose, not like curved. -- Aristotle.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. -- Aristotle.
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure. -- Aristotle.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. -- Aristotle.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied. -- Aristotle.
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. -- Aristotle.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. -- Aristotle.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. -- Aristotle.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. -- Aristotle.
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this. -- Aristotle.
He who has many friends has no friends. -- Aristotle.
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. -- Aristotle.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. -- Aristotle.
We deliberate not about ends, but about means. -- Aristotle.
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. -- Aristotle.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. -- Aristotle.
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. -- Aristotle.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. -- Aristotle.
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. -- Aristotle.
A true friend is one soul divided into two people. -- Aristotle.
For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable. -- Aristotle.
The greatest victory is over self. -- Aristotle.
The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness. -- Aristotle.
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good. -- Aristotle.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. -- Aristotle.
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. -- Aristotle.
Neither by nature, therefore, nor contrary to nature are the virtues present; they are instead present in us who are of such a nature as to receive them, and who are completed1 through habit. -- Aristotle.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed. -- Aristotle.
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong. -- Aristotle.
Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance of the mean, in point of excellence and rightness it is an extreme. -- Aristotle.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud. -- Aristotle.
In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless. -- Aristotle.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect. -- Aristotle.
The soul never thinks without a mental picture. -- Aristotle.
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail. -- Aristotle.
Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it. -- Aristotle.
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. -- Aristotle.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. -- Aristotle.
We are what we continually do ... -- Aristotle.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. -- Aristotle.
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers. -- Aristotle.
But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men. -- Aristotle.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. -- Aristotle.
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. -- Aristotle.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. -- Aristotle.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all. -- Aristotle.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best. -- Aristotle.
The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant. -- Aristotle.
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves. -- Aristotle.
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. -- Aristotle.
Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense. -- Aristotle.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. -- Aristotle.
A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result. -- Aristotle.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. -- Aristotle.
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled. -- Aristotle.
For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue. -- Aristotle.
Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow. -- Aristotle.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so. -- Aristotle.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. -- Aristotle.
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader. -- Aristotle.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. -- Aristotle.
Law is order, and good law is good order. -- Aristotle.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. -- Aristotle.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. -- 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 easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. -- Aristotle.
Justice is Equality ... but equality of what? -- Aristotle.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. -- Aristotle.
If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error. -- Aristotle.
If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won. -- Aristotle.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal . -- Aristotle.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. -- Aristotle.
The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature. -- Aristotle.
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. -- Aristotle.
What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing. -- Aristotle.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. -- Aristotle.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. -- Aristotle.
For the beginning is thought to be more than half of the whole, and many of the questions we ask are cleared up by it. -- Aristotle.
All learning is derived from things previously known. -- Aristotle.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. -- Aristotle.
The science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. -- Aristotle.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness -- Aristotle.
Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life. -- Aristotle.
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. -- Aristotle.
Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless. -- Aristotle.
Rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy. -- Aristotle.
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. -- Aristotle.
To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true. -- Aristotle.
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. -- Aristotle.
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving. -- Aristotle.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. -- Aristotle.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. -- Aristotle.
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body; -- Aristotle.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. -- Aristotle.
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. -- Aristotle.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. -- Aristotle.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. -- Aristotle.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune. -- Aristotle.
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. -- Aristotle.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. -- Aristotle.
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times. -- Aristotle.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. -- Aristotle.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. -- Aristotle.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. -- Aristotle.
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do. -- Aristotle.
To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. -- Aristotle.
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. -- Aristotle.
for the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, (20) but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature. -- Aristotle.
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies. -- Aristotle.
The quality of life is determined by its activities. -- Aristotle.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others. -- Aristotle.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. -- Aristotle.
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person. -- Aristotle.
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 neighbor to have them through envy. -- Aristotle.
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail -- Aristotle.
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. -- Aristotle.
Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure. -- Aristotle.
The case is similar with the idea as well: even if there is some one good thing that is predicated [of things] in common, or there is some separate thing, itself by itself, it is clear that it would not be subject to action or capable of being possessed by a human being. -- Aristotle.
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. -- Aristotle.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. -- Aristotle.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. -- Aristotle.
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love -- Aristotle.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. -- Aristotle.
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war -- Aristotle.
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. -- Aristotle.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. -- Aristotle.
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act. -- Aristotle.
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member. -- Aristotle.
Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. -- Aristotle.
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life -- Aristotle.
That which is excellent endures. -- Aristotle.
Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ... -- Aristotle.
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude. -- Aristotle.
It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way. -- Aristotle.
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway. -- Aristotle.
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect. -- Aristotle.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. -- Aristotle.
A friend is another I. -- Aristotle.
It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid. -- Aristotle.
In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us. -- Aristotle.
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible. -- Aristotle.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn -- Aristotle.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. -- Aristotle.
A promise made must be a promise kept. -- Aristotle.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. -- Aristotle.
Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not. -- Aristotle.
Logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use -- Aristotle.
Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly. -- Aristotle.
Perception starts with the eye. -- Aristotle.
Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private ... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them. -- Aristotle.
The happy man ... will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way. -- Aristotle.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. -- Aristotle.
Lastly (4) in each of his infinite bodies there would be already present infinite flesh and blood and brain - having a distinct existence, however, from one another, and no less real than the infinite bodies, and each infinite: which is contrary to reason. -- Aristotle.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. -- Aristotle.
All communication must lead to change -- Aristotle.
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them. -- Aristotle.
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation. -- Aristotle.
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature. -- Aristotle.
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. -- Aristotle.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. -- Aristotle.
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it. -- Aristotle.
Love well, be loved and do something of value. -- Aristotle.
Beauty is a gift of God. -- Aristotle.
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. -- Aristotle.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. -- Aristotle.
The soul is the form of the body -- Aristotle.
Authority is no source for Truth. -- Aristotle.
Wicked me obey from fear;
good men,from love. -- Aristotle.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. -- Aristotle.
In this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles. -- Aristotle.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved. -- Aristotle.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. -- Aristotle.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. -- Aristotle.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. -- Aristotle.
The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,. and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit. -- Aristotle.
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. -- Aristotle.
Peace is more difficult than war. -- Aristotle.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know -- Aristotle.
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. -- Aristotle.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. -- Aristotle.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. -- Aristotle.
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them. -- Aristotle.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. -- Aristotle.
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way. -- Aristotle.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life. -- Aristotle.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. -- Aristotle.
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast. -- Aristotle.
You are what you repeatedly do -- Aristotle.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless. -- Aristotle.
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own. -- Aristotle.
Cruel is the strife of brothers. -- Aristotle.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. -- Aristotle.
The production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet. -- Aristotle.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. -- Aristotle.
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state. -- Aristotle.
For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon) -- Aristotle.
Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. -- Aristotle.
Perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily. -- Aristotle.
Friends enhance our ability to think and act. -- Aristotle.
There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. -- Aristotle.
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. -- Aristotle.
A line is not made up of points ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. -- Aristotle.
Wickedness is nourished by lust. -- Aristotle.
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons. -- Aristotle.
Wit is educated insolence. -- Aristotle.
God has many names, though He is only one Being. -- Aristotle.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person. -- Aristotle.
A person's life persuades better than his word. -- Aristotle.
So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. -- Aristotle.
Excellence is not an act, but habit. -- Aristotle.
That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body -- Aristotle.
Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them. -- Aristotle.
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing. -- Aristotle.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency ... -- Aristotle.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. -- Aristotle.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit -- Aristotle.
It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance. -- Aristotle.
They who love in excess also hate in excess. -- Aristotle.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is the reward of virtue. -- Aristotle.
Every realm of nature is marvelous. -- Aristotle.
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. -- Aristotle.
Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right? -- Aristotle.
It is no easy task to be good. -- Aristotle.
None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit. -- Aristotle.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion. -- Aristotle.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. -- Aristotle.
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. -- Aristotle.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. -- Aristotle.
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue. -- Aristotle.
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish ... but in forming opinons we are not free ... -- Aristotle.
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices
that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue
the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes. -- Aristotle.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. -- Aristotle.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us. -- Aristotle.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. -- Aristotle.
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done. -- Aristotle.
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man. -- Aristotle.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. -- Aristotle.
Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues. -- Aristotle.
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. -- Aristotle.
The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18 -- Aristotle.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. -- Aristotle.
It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen, -- Aristotle.
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term. -- Aristotle.
For the activity of the mind is life -- Aristotle.
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? -- Aristotle.
There appears to be a certain difference among the ends: some ends are activities, others are certain works apart from the activities themselves, and in those cases in which there are certain ends apart from the actions, the works are naturally better than the activities. -- Aristotle.
Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity. -- Aristotle.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. -- Aristotle.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely. -- Aristotle.
Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. -- Aristotle.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. -- Aristotle.
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit -- Aristotle.
He who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander -- Aristotle.
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all. -- Aristotle.
Nature does nothing uselessly. -- Aristotle.
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else. -- Aristotle.
We must become just be doing just acts. -- Aristotle.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue; -- Aristotle.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. -- Aristotle.
For good is simple, evil manifold. -- Aristotle.
No science ever defends its first principles. -- Aristotle.
Evil draws men together. -- Aristotle.
which we call men [Greek: euyvomoves], or say they have -- Aristotle.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. -- Aristotle.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. -- Aristotle.
What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something. -- Aristotle.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. -- Aristotle.
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents. -- Aristotle.
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things. -- Aristotle.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. -- Aristotle.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. -- Aristotle.
Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals. -- Aristotle.
No more will there be any difference between 'the ideal good' and 'good' in so far as both are good. -- Aristotle.
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible. -- Aristotle.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. -- Aristotle.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. -- Aristotle.
There is honor in being a dog. -- Aristotle.
Man by Nature desires to know. -- Aristotle.
Not in depraved things,
but in those well oriented according to nature,
are we to consider what is natural. -- Aristotle.
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know. -- Aristotle.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. -- Aristotle.
One has no friend who has many friends. -- Aristotle.
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration. -- Aristotle.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. -- Aristotle.
To love someone is to identify with them. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. -- Aristotle.
All men by nature desire to know. -- Aristotle.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor ... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. -- Aristotle.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end. -- Aristotle.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. -- Aristotle.
We are what we repeatively do. Success is not an action but a habit. -- Aristotle.
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter. -- Aristotle.
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering. -- Aristotle.
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. -- Aristotle.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. -- Aristotle.
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself. -- Aristotle.
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. -- Aristotle.
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue .. -- Aristotle.
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? -- Aristotle.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things. -- Aristotle.
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning. -- Aristotle.
Happiness is self-connectedness. -- Aristotle.
The intention makes the crime. -- Aristotle.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom -- Aristotle.
for nobility is excellence of race. -- Aristotle.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Aristotle.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils. -- Aristotle.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development -- Aristotle.
You should never think without an image. -- Aristotle.
The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised. -- Aristotle.
Hope is the dream of a waking man -- Aristotle.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. -- Aristotle.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. -- Aristotle.
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility. -- Aristotle.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled -- Aristotle.
A gentleman is not disturbed by anything -- Aristotle.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. -- Aristotle.
We are what we repatedy do. Excellance then is not an act but a habit -- Aristotle.
The hand is the tool of tools. -- Aristotle.
How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master's opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece of the formal study of rhetoric? This -- Aristotle.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. -- Aristotle.
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance -- Aristotle.
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant. -- Aristotle.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. -- Aristotle.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. -- Aristotle.
We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it. -- Aristotle.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible. -- Aristotle.
There is only one driving force: The desire. -- Aristotle.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. -- Aristotle.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. -- Aristotle.
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. -- Aristotle.
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life -- Aristotle.
Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever. -- Aristotle.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience. -- Aristotle.
Nature abhors a vacuum. -- Aristotle.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole. -- Aristotle.
Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation. -- Aristotle.
The secret to humor is surprise. -- Aristotle.
A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge; -- Aristotle.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things ... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. -- Aristotle.
Moderation in all things -- Aristotle.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. -- Aristotle.
All men by nature desire knowledge. -- Aristotle.
Talent is culture with insolence. -- Aristotle.
All men are alike when asleep. -- Aristotle.
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. -- Aristotle.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. -- Aristotle.
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. -- Aristotle.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle.
The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become. -- Aristotle.
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do. -- Aristotle.
We are what we frequently do. -- Aristotle.
The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical -- Aristotle.
The best things are placed between extremes. -- Aristotle.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. -- Aristotle.
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously. -- Aristotle.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. -- Aristotle.
Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic. -- Aristotle.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. -- Aristotle.
The end of labor is to gain leisure. -- Aristotle.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. -- Aristotle.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not -- Aristotle.
To say this, however, is not to claim that it was the object of theoretical study. -- Aristotle.
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics. -- Aristotle.
The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else. -- Aristotle.
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. -- Aristotle.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural. -- Aristotle.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose -- Aristotle.
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. -- Aristotle.
It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense. -- Aristotle.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. -- Aristotle.
Greed has no boundaries -- Aristotle.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. -- Aristotle.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. -- Aristotle.
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance -- Aristotle.
What soon grows old? Gratitude. -- Aristotle.
However, it is not the same with the subject matter, but, generally speaking, that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade. -- Aristotle.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim. -- Aristotle.