Aristotle Quotes
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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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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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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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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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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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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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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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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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.