Aristotle Quotes
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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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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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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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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All things are full of gods.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.