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
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — 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