Aristotle Quotes
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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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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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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The probable is what usually happens.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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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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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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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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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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Beauty is the gift of God.
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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.