Top 1292 Quotes & Sayings by Aristotle - Page 5

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Peace is more difficult than war.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

There is honor in being a dog.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

A promise made must be a promise kept.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

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

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

To love someone is to identify with them.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

The hand is the tool of tools.

Happiness is a state of activity.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Wit is well-bred insolence.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.