Aristotle Quotes
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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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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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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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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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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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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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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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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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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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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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.