Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — 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
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 form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving.… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
![“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.jpg)
