Aristotle Quotes

You should never think without an image.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

All proofs rest on premises.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Art takes nature as its model.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Happiness is activity.

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

The best things are placed between extremes.