Aristotle Quotes
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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
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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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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
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Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
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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.
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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
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Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way, for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.