For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — 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
