Aristotle Quotes
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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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.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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All communication must lead to change.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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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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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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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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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.