Aristotle Quotes
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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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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Character is revealed through action.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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 flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.