--- title: "20 Natural Quotes By Aristotle" description: "20 Natural quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Natural sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_habitual_for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becom_2721272.png" --- > [For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becomes-as-it-were-natural/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_habitual_for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becom_2721272.png) > [The physician heals, Nature makes well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/aristotle-78_doctor_the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well-24_2476788.png) > [But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/but-nature-flies-from-the-infinite-for-the-infinite-is-imperfect-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/aristotle-78_ends_but-nature-flies-from-the-infinite-for-t_929170.png) > [Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/everything-that-depends-on-the-action-of-nature-is-by-nature-as-good/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dd/aristotle-78_action_everything-that-depends-on-the-action-of_651866.png) > [We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/we-should-venture-on-the-study-of-every-kind-of-animal-without/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/aristotle-78_animal_we-should-venture-on-the-study-of-every_1016327.png) > [We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/we-must-not-feel-a-childish-disgust-at-the-investigations-of-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32c/aristotle-78_animal_we-must-not-feel-a-childish-disgust-at-t_2127065.png) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7c/aristotle-78_common_to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confi_27661.png) > [A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-proper-wife-should-be-as-obedient-as-a-slave-the-female-is-a-female/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/539/aristotle-78_certain_a-proper-wife-should-be-as-obedient-as-a_1325745.png) > [“Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/not-in-depraved-things-but-in-those-well-oriented-according-to-nature/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/aristotle-78_natural_not-in-depraved-things-but-in-those-well_126570.png) > [For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-even-they-who-compose-treatises-of-medicine-or-natural-philosophy/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c8/aristotle-78_common_for-even-they-who-compose-treatises-of-m_1276957.jpg) > [For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-nature-by-the-same-cause-provided-it-remain-in-the-same-condition/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a5/aristotle-78_causes_for-nature-by-the-same-cause-provided-it_2327439.png) > [Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/money-was-established-for-exchange-but-interest-causes-it-to-be/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/aristotle-78_causes_money-was-established-for-exchange-but-i_1473685.png) > [For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-imitation-is-natural-to-man-from-his-infancy-man-differs-from/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f4/aristotle-78_acquire_for-imitation-is-natural-to-man-from-his_2820195.jpg) > [Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/conscientious-and-careful-physicians-allocate-causes-of-disease-to/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/aristotle-78_careful_conscientious-and-careful-physicians-all_2969574.png) > [1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/1-is-not-prime-by-definition-2-is-an-unnatural-prime-4-is-an/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57d/aristotle-78_definitions_1-is-not-prime-by-definition-2-is-an-unn_798588.png) > [But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/but-obviously-a-state-which-becomes-progressively-more-and-more-of-a/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_cease_but-obviously-a-state-which-becomes-prog_1820612.jpg) > [Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/most-persons-think-that-a-state-in-order-to-be-happy-ought-to-be/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/259/aristotle-78_animal_most-persons-think-that-a-state-in-order_2024899.png) > [ If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence \[as a whole\], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/if-a-man-of-good-natural-disposition-acquires-intelligence-as-a-whole/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89e/aristotle-78_acquire_if-a-man-of-good-natural-disposition-acq_342320.jpg) > [In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-bad-or-corrupted-natures-the-body-will-often-appear-to-rule-over/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfb/aristotle-78_appetite_in-bad-or-corrupted-natures-the-body-wil_711933.jpg) > [All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-are-agreed-that-the-various-moral-qualities-are-in-a-sense/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c7/aristotle-78_animal_all-are-agreed-that-the-various-moral-qu_2721917.jpg) ## Other authors on Natural ## 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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [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/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/natural/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "20 Natural Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becomes-as-it-were-natural/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_habitual_for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becom_2721272.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_habitual_for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becom_2721272.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/aristotle-78_habitual_for-that-which-has-become-habitual-becom_2721272.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The physician heals, Nature makes well.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/aristotle-78_doctor_the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well-24_2476788.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/aristotle-78_doctor_the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well-24_2476788.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/aristotle-78_doctor_the-physician-heals-nature-makes-well-24_2476788.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The physician heals, Nature makes well.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But nature flies from the infinite; 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