Aristotle Quotes

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  • Happiness is activity.

  • How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

  • The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle
  • The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

  • 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.

  • Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • 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.

    Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)
  • 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 (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions
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  • Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

  • 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.

    "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.
  • Men create the gods after their own images.

  • He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  • Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.456, Simon and Schuster
  • Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

  • Man by Nature desires to know.

  • When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

  • Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

  • 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. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1746, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

  • Adventure is worthwhile.

  • 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.

  • Art takes nature as its model.

  • 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, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1827, Princeton University Press
  • To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

  • Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

  • 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.

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  • Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

  • Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3136, Delphi Classics
  • Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
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    Aristotle quotes about: Accidents Acting Adultery Adventure Adversity Affairs Affection Age Aids Ambition Anger Animals Appearance Arguing Art Atheism Beauty Being Happy Being The Best Belief Best Friends Birth Bravery Business Character Charity Children Choices College Education Communism Community Conflict Conformity Consciousness Constitution Contemplation Courage Creation Creativity Crime Culture Decisions Democracy Depression Desire Destiny Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Doubt Dreams Drinking Duty Earth Economy Education Effort Emotions Enemies Energy Envy Equality Ethics Evidence Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Eyes Failing Failure Fairness Family Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Freedom Friends Friendship Funny Gardens Genius Giving Goals God Gold Goodness Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Growth Habits Happiness Happy Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heaven History Honesty Honor Hope Human Nature Humanity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Injustice Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Joy Judging Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Laughter Leadership Learning Liberalism Liberty Life Literature Living Together Logic Love Love And Friendship Lying Madness Making A Difference Making Money Management Mankind Math Mathematics Meaning Of Life Meditation Memories Metaphor Metaphysics Middle Class Military Moderation Monarchy Money Morality Mothers Motivation Motivational Myth Nature Neighbors Obedience Observation Offense Office Old Age Opinions Overcoming Pain Pain And Pleasure Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Performing Perseverance Persuasion Philanthropy Philosophy Plato Pleasure Politicians Politics Positive Positivity Poverty Power Praise Productivity Property Prosperity Prudence Purpose Quality Rebellion Relationships Religion Representation Responsibility Revenge Revolution Rhetoric Royalty Running Sacrifice School Science Self Control Self Esteem Seven Simplicity Slavery Slaves Social Justice Society Son Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Students Study Style Success Suffering Summer Talent Teachers Teaching Temperance Time Tragedy Train Training True Friends Truth Tyranny Understanding Unity Values Victory Virtue War Water Wealth Wife Winning Wisdom Wit Work Writing Youth

    Aristotle

    • Born: 384 BC
    • Died: 322 BC
    • Occupation: Philosopher