Aristotle Quotes
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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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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
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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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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
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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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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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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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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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We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
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Either a beast or a god.
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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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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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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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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
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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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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
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There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.