Aristotle Quotes
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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Either a beast or a god.
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The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
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The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
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We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
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Friendship is communion.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.