Aristotle Quotes
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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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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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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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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
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The best things are placed between extremes.
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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.
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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.
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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
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The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.