For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — 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
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — 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
