All Aristotle Quotes
- Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. Action
- Wonder implies the desire to learn. Curiosity
- Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. Anarchy
- To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. Adventurous
- Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' Contrary
- If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being… Always Better
- To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. Funny
- Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in… Act
- Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Activities
- Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. Desire
- 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