Aristotle Quotes
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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.
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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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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.
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People generally despise where they flatter.
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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.
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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure.
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It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.
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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
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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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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.
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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.