Aristotle Quotes
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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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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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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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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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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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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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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Those who act receive the prizes.