Skip to content

Activity Quote by Aristotle

“It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete…” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Activity Granted Happiness Human happiness Humans Incomplete Intellect Life

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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…

Image

All men by nature desire to know.

Image

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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…

Image

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Image

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Image

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Image

Explore all 1,545 Aristotle quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

Image

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Image

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

Image

Fighting's fun, man. It's a great activity, it's a great sport.

Image

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable…

Image

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

Image

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Image

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

Gero Miesenbock

Image

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Image

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct…

Image

Browse all 3,242 Activity quotes