Aristotle Quotes
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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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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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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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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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All communication must lead to change.
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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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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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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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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.