For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the… — 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
