Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result,… — 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 one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
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 common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are… — Aristotle Copy Share
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