Aristotle Quotes
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
