Aristotle Quotes
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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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.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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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.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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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.
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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.
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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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.
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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.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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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.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.