Aristotle Quotes
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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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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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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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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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.