--- title: "16 Concerned Quotes By Aristotle" description: "16 Concerned quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Concerned sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/aristotle-78_art_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_2238989.png" --- > [All art is concerned with coming into being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-being/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/aristotle-78_art_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_2238989.png) > [Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their-own-they-care-less-for-what/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/aristotle-78_attention_men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their_1285839.jpg) > [Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/metaphysics-is-universal-and-is-exclusively-concerned-with-primary/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/aristotle-78_concerned_metaphysics-is-universal-and-is-exclusiv_780087.png) > [Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/bravery-is-a-mean-state-concerned-with-things-that-inspire-confidence/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf0/aristotle-78_bravery_bravery-is-a-mean-state-concerned-with-t_1898174.jpg) > [Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/even-when-laws-have-been-written-down-they-ought-not-always-to-remain-2/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/869/aristotle-78_action_even-when-laws-have-been-written-down-th_1290083.png) > [All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-being-for-it-is-concerned/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/aristotle-78_accordance_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_935924.png) > [That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-which-is-common-to-the-greatest-number-has-the-least-care/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/938/aristotle-78_care_that-which-is-common-to-the-greatest-num_36395.png) > [Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/excellence-then-is-a-state-concerned-with-choice-lying-in-a-mean/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/aristotle-78_concerned_excellence-then-is-a-state-concerned-wit_1531024.png) > [Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/since-the-branch-of-philosophy-on-which-we-are-at-present-engaged/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/aristotle-78_branches_since-the-branch-of-philosophy-on-which_1889747.png) > [That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-education-should-be-regulated-by-law-and-should-be-an-affair-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/aristotle-78_affair_that-education-should-be-regulated-by-la_2356679.png) > [ \[the virtues\] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudence-a-proof-of-this-is-that/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png) > [Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/rhetoric-is-useful-because-the-true-and-the-just-are-naturally/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/aristotle-78_accurate_rhetoric-is-useful-because-the-true-and_1128619.png) > [Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/anger-is-always-concerned-with-individuals-whereas-hatred-is-directed/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/aristotle-78_aim_anger-is-always-concerned-with-individua_1101339.png) > [Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/most-men-appear-to-think-that-the-art-of-despotic-government-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8c/aristotle-78_art_most-men-appear-to-think-that-the-art-of_1313673.png) > [Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/whereas-young-people-become-accomplished-in-geometry-and-mathematics/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47f/aristotle-78_accomplished_whereas-young-people-become-accomplished_2539240.png) > [If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to-the-mean-as-they-work-and-if/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.jpg) ## Other authors on Concerned ## More by Aristotle > [The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-knowledge-of-the-soul-admittedly-contributes-greatly-to-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/young-men-have-strong-passions-and-tend-to-gratify-them/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-body-is-at-its-best-between-the-ages-of-thirty-and-thirty-five/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-ensouled-is-distinguished-from-the-unsouled-by-its-being-alive/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/although-it-may-be-difficult-in-theory-to-know-what-is-just-and-equal/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-true-forms-of-government-therefore-are-those-in-which-the-one-or/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All men by nature desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-men-by-nature-desire-to-know/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/give-a-man-a-fish-you-feed-him-for-a-day-give-a-man-a-poisoned-fish/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-confers-a-favour-would-rather-not-be-repaid-in-the-same/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-does-not-consist-in-pastimes-and-amusements-but-in-virtuous/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confined-to-philosophers-but/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-virtue-is-a-mean-between-two-extremes-each-of-which-is-a-vice/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/concerned/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "16 Concerned Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All art is concerned with coming into being.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-being/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/aristotle-78_art_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_2238989.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/aristotle-78_art_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_2238989.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/aristotle-78_art_all-art-is-concerned-with-coming-into-be_2238989.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All art is concerned with coming into being.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their-own-they-care-less-for-what/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/aristotle-78_attention_men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their_1285839.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/aristotle-78_attention_men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their_1285839.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/aristotle-78_attention_men-pay-most-attention-to-what-is-their_1285839.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care…” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... 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