All Aristotle Quotes
- In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. Great
- The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles… Advanced
- Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]… Able
- Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have… Coping
- Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or… Attention
- It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… Abasement
- Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing… Acts
- Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. Educated
- If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. Any
- Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there… Affection
- Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages. Advantage
- Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after. Concerning
- You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I… Act
- It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely… Aiming
- The actuality of thought is life. Actuality
- Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… Accepted
- For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity… All
- Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then… All
- It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we… Causes
- ...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. Contain
- ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. Activity
- Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles. Cannot Go
- ... a science must deal with a subject and its properties. Deal
- ... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. Funny
- But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. Destruction