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
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
