Aristotle Quotes
The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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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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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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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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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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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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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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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 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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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
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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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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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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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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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Plot is character revealed by action.
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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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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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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.