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title: "48 Form Quotes By Aristotle"
description: "48 Form quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Form sayings from other authors."
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> [The soul is the form of the body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-soul-is-the-form-of-the-body/)

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> [All human happiness and misery take the form of action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-human-happiness-and-misery-take-the-form-of-action/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Teaching is the highest form of understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/teaching-is-the-highest-form-of-understanding/)

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> [The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-habits-we-form-from-childhood-make-no-small-difference-but-rather/)

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> [Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/aristocracy-is-that-form-of-government-in-which-education-and/)

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> [Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/character-gives-us-qualities-but-it-is-in-our-actions-what-we-do-that/)

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> [Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/democracy-is-the-form-of-government-in-which-the-free-are-rulers/)

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> [Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/now-it-is-evident-that-the-form-of-government-is-best-in-which-every/)

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> [Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/man-is-the-metre-of-all-things-the-hand-is-the-instrument-of/)

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> [Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/emotions-of-any-kind-can-be-evoked-by-melody-and-rhythm-therefore/)

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> [The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-form-of-government-is-a-democracy-when-the-free-who-are-also-poor/)

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> [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/)

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> [The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-same-thing-may-have-all-the-kinds-of-causes-e-g-the-moving-cause/)

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> [Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-then-is-co-extensive-with-contemplation-and-the-more-people/)

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> [Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/democracy-is-the-form-of-government-in-which-the-free-are-rulers-and/)

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> [Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/of-governments-there-are-said-to-be-only-two-forms-democracy-and/)

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> [In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-the-perfect-state-the-good-man-is-absolutely-the-same-as-the-good/)

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> [Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/those-whose-days-are-consumed-in-the-low-pursuits-of-avarice-or-the/)

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> [There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/there-are-still-two-forms-besides-democracy-and-oligarchy-one-of-them/)

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> [The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-legislator-should-direct-his-attention-above-all-to-the-education/)

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> [For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-contemplation-is-both-the-highest-form-of-activity-since-the/)

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> [That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-which-most-contributes-to-the-permanence-of-constitutions-is-the/)

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> [There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/there-are-three-qualifications-required-in-those-who-have-to-fill-the/)

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> [Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/salt-water-when-it-turns-into-vapour-becomes-sweet-and-the-vapour/)

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> [Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/emotions-of-any-kind-are-produced-by-melody-and-rhythm-therefore-by/)

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> [There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/there-are-then-these-three-means-of-effecting-persuasion-the-man-who/)

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> [Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/democracy-appears-to-be-safer-and-less-liable-to-revolution-than/)

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> [A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-government-which-is-composed-of-the-middle-class-more-nearly/)

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> [Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/character-gives-us-qualities-but-it-is-in-actions-what-we-do-that-we/)

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> [The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mathematical-sciences-particularly-exhibit-order-symmetry-and/)

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> [Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/now-the-causes-being-four-it-is-the-business-of-the-student-of-nature/)

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> [Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/error-is-multiform-for-evil-is-a-form-of-the-unlimited-as-in-the-old/)

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> [In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-the-laws-it-is-maintained-that-the-best-constitution-is-made-up-of/)

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> [Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/now-what-is-just-and-right-is-to-be-interpreted-in-the-sense-of-what/)

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> [Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/music-directly-imitates-the-passions-or-states-of-the-soul-when-one/)

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> [Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/neither-should-we-forget-the-mean-which-at-the-present-day-is-lost/)

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> [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/)

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> [In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-the-many-forms-of-government-which-have-sprung-up-there-has-always/)

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> [It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/it-has-been-handed-down-in-mythical-form-from-earliest-times-to/)

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> [Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/because-the-rich-are-generally-few-in-number-while-the-poor-are-many/)

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## Other authors on Form

## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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                        "text": "Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.",
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