Aristotle Quotes
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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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The intention makes the crime.