Aristotle Quotes
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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The probable is what usually happens.
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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.