Aristotle Quotes
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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
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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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The best things are placed between extremes.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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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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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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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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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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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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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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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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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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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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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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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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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
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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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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.