Aristotle Quotes
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.