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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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
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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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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 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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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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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.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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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.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.