Aristotle Quotes
-
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
-
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.
-
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
-
The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-
Wit is cultured insolence.
-
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
-
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
-
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
-
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.
-
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
-
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
-
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
-
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
-
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
-
The law is reason, free from passion.
-
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
-
Evils draw men together.
-
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
-
It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
-
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
-
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.
-
Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
-
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.