--- title: "8 Degrees Quotes By Aristotle" description: "8 Degrees quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Degrees sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a2/aristotle-78_communism_the-error-of-socrates-must-be-attributed_719016.jpg" --- > [The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-error-of-socrates-must-be-attributed-to-the-false-notion-of-unity/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a2/aristotle-78_communism_the-error-of-socrates-must-be-attributed_719016.jpg) > [The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-state-or-political-community-which-is-the-highest-of-all-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c0/aristotle-78_aim_the-state-or-political-community-which-i_737551.png) > [Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/those-who-assert-that-the-mathematical-sciences-say-nothing-of-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/aristotle-78_attributes_those-who-assert-that-the-mathematical-s_902484.jpg) > [Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/plants-again-inasmuch-as-they-are-without-locomotion-present-no-great/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/aristotle-78_animal_plants-again-inasmuch-as-they-are-withou_965152.png) > [Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/selfishness-doesn-t-consist-in-a-love-to-yourself-but-in-a-big-degree/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/329/aristotle-78_bigs_selfishness-doesn-t-consist-in-a-love-to_1760072.png) > [I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/i-call-that-law-universal-which-is-conformable-merely-to-dictates-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/aristotle-78_certain_i-call-that-law-universal-which-is-confo_1922415.png) > [The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-chief-forms-of-beauty-are-order-and-symmetry-and-definiteness/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/aristotle-78_beauty_the-chief-forms-of-beauty-are-order-and_2742523.png) > [Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-community-is-an-association-of-some-kind-and-every-community-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/aristotle-78_aim_every-community-is-an-association-of-som_2956161.png) ## Other authors on Degrees ## 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/degrees/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "8 Degrees Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. 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