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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To love someone is to identify with them.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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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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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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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 high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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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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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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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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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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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.