Aristotle Quotes
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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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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All things are full of gods.
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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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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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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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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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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 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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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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Happiness is a sort of action.