Aristotle Quotes
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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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There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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Character is revealed through action.
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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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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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Hope is a waking dream.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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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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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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Well begun is half done.