Aristotle Quotes (367 Quotes)

Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Men come together in cities in order to live they remain together in order to live the good life

There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

Not to get what you have your heart set on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

The evolution of species was the subject of conjecture long before Darwin's day. Here Aristotle attributes to Empedocles an evolutionary doctrine strikingly reminiscent of natural selection 'Empedocles says that the greater part of the members of animals.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes it deficiencies.

Piety required us to honour truth above our friends.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends mathematics has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect it is too exciting.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.

Either a beast or a god.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.

What soon grows old Gratitude.

Wicked men obey from fear good men, from love.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Wit is educated insolence.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

To the query, 'What is a friend' his reply was 'A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Happiness is a sort of action.

There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Change in all things is sweet.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.