Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — 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
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — 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
