Aristotle Quotes
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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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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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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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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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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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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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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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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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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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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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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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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The best things are placed between extremes.
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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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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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Well begun is half done.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.