Aristotle Quotes
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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 another I.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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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 high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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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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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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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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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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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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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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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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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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Art takes nature as its model.
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All things are full of gods.
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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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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.