Aristotle Quotes
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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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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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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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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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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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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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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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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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A friend is another I.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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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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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.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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All things are full of gods.
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Evils draw men together.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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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.