Aristotle Quotes
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
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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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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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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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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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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
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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.
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There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
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Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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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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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.