Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in… — 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
