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 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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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.
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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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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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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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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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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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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
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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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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.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Plot is character revealed by action.
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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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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
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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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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.