Aristotle Quotes
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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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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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in 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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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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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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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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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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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
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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.