Aristotle Quotes
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.