The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
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. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
