Aristotle Quotes
-
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
-
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.
-
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
-
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
-
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
-
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
-
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
-
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.
-
You should never think without an image.
-
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
-
It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
-
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
-
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
-
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
-
The first principle of all action is leisure.
-
A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
-
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
-
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.
-
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
-
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
-
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
-
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
-
It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
-
Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...