The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — 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