Aristotle Quotes
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
Quotes to Explore
-
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
-
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
-
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
-
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
-
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.
-
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
-
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
-
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.
-
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
-
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.
-
Plot is character revealed by action.
-
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.
-
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
-
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
-
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
-
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
-
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-
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.