To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — 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
