Aristotle Quotes
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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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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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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 no easy task to be good.
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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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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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All communication must lead to change.
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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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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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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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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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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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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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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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.