Aristotle Quotes
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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .
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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.
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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
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This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.