--- title: "19 Subjects Quotes By Aristotle" description: "19 Subjects quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Subjects sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/aristotle-78_better_that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercis_2225956.png" --- > [That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercised-over-better-subjects/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/aristotle-78_better_that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercis_2225956.png) > [... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-its-properties/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/aristotle-78_deals_a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-i_2021642.png) > [Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gravity-of-humor-for-a-subject/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/aristotle-78_bears_humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gr_79762.png) > [A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-good-style-must-first-of-all-be-clear-it-must-not-be-mean-or-above/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/aristotle-78_appropriate_a-good-style-must-first-of-all-be-clear_3073018.png) > [A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-man-who-examines-each-subject-from-a-philosophical-standpoint/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/aristotle-78_men_a-man-who-examines-each-subject-from-a-p_2346980.png) > [The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-so-called-pythagoreans-who-were-the-first-to-take-up-mathematics/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/aristotle-78_firsts_the-so-called-pythagoreans-who-were-the_386145.jpg) > [It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-man-to-look-for-precision-in-each-class/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/aristotle-78_class_it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-man-to-loo_305782.png) > [It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/it-is-also-in-the-interests-of-the-tyrant-to-make-his-subjects-poor/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/aristotle-78_interest_it-is-also-in-the-interests-of-the-tyran_182358.png) > [One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/one-would-have-thought-that-it-was-even-more-necessary-to-limit/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/aristotle-78_calculating_one-would-have-thought-that-it-was-even_1290906.png) > [A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-tyrant-must-put-on-the-appearance-of-uncommon-devotion-to-religion/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/aristotle-78_appearance_a-tyrant-must-put-on-the-appearance-of-u_351622.png) > [ In \[the soul\] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-the-soul-one-part-naturally-rules-and-the-other-is-subject-and-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/aristotle-78_all-things_in-the-soul-one-part-naturally-rules-and_54509.jpg) > [Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/rhetoric-is-the-counterpart-of-logic-since-both-are-conversant-with/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf8/aristotle-78_argument_rhetoric-is-the-counterpart-of-logic-sin_1893580.png) > [Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/since-the-branch-of-philosophy-on-which-we-are-at-present-engaged/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/aristotle-78_branches_since-the-branch-of-philosophy-on-which_1889747.png) > [It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-mind-to-expect-that-amount-of-exactness/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/aristotle-78_accept-me_it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-mind-to-ex_2077259.jpg) > [But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/but-nothing-is-yet-clear-on-the-subject-of-the-intellect-and-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/aristotle-78_clear_but-nothing-is-yet-clear-on-the-subject_1289401.jpg) > [Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/most-men-appear-to-think-that-the-art-of-despotic-government-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8c/aristotle-78_art_most-men-appear-to-think-that-the-art-of_1313673.png) > [The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-tyrant-who-in-order-to-hold-his-power-suppresses-every/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/aristotle-78_accustomed_the-tyrant-who-in-order-to-hold-his-powe_1166293.jpg) > [That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-education-should-be-regulated-by-law-and-should-be-an-affair-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/aristotle-78_affair_that-education-should-be-regulated-by-la_2356679.png) > [These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/these-then-are-the-four-kinds-of-royalty-first-the-monarchy-of-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15d/aristotle-78_age_these-then-are-the-four-kinds-of-royalty_1787084.jpg) ## Other authors on Subjects ## 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/subjects/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "19 Subjects Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercised-over-better-subjects/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/aristotle-78_better_that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercis_2225956.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/aristotle-78_better_that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercis_2225956.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/aristotle-78_better_that-rule-is-the-better-which-is-exercis_2225956.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-its-properties/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/aristotle-78_deals_a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-i_2021642.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/aristotle-78_deals_a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-i_2021642.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/aristotle-78_deals_a-science-must-deal-with-a-subject-and-i_2021642.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gravity-of-humor-for-a-subject/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/aristotle-78_bears_humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gr_79762.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/aristotle-78_bears_humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gr_79762.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/aristotle-78_bears_humor-is-the-only-test-of-gravity-and-gr_79762.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is…” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A good style must, first of all, be clear. 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