Aristotle Quotes
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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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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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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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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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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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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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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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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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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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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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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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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The intention makes the crime.
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.