Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.