All Aristotle Quotes
- When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. Arise
- Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. Constitute
- All that we do is done with an eye to something else. All
- We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own. Able
- When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial. Bar
- The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. Best
- It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. Animal
- The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. Back Everybody
- Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. Citizens
- It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. Desire
- It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. Any
- Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in… Advantage
- Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. God
- If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. Afraid
- Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. Each
- Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,… Afterwards
- Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. Account
- The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other… All
- Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. Best
- True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. External
- The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that… All
- In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the… Aggregate
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final… All
- Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;… Aim
- As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then… Amplify