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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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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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 what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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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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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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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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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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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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A friend is another I.
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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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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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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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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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All things are full of gods.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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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.