Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — 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
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