That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from… — 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
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — 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
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — 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
