Aristotle Quotes
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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.'
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
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Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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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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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose.
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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
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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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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.