To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. — 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
