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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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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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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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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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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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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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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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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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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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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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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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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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
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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.