Aristotle Quotes
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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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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.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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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.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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A friend is another I.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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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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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.