Aristotle Quotes
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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 great genius has an admixture of madness.
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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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The probable is what usually happens.
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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
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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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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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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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Beauty is the gift of God.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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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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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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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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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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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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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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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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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.