close
Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy!

Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle
  • "A friend to all is a friend to none."
  • "A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
  • "A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
  • "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
  • "All men by nature desire knowledge."
  • "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
  • "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
  • "Change in all things is sweet."
  • "Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
  • "He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
  • "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."
  • "Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
  • "Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
  • "Hope is the dream of a waking man."
  • "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
  • "I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
  • "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
  • "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
  • "In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
  • "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
  • "In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
  • "In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
  • "In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
  • " Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
  • "It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
  • "It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."
  • "It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought."
  • "It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
  • "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
  • "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
  • "Man is by nature a political animal."
  • "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
  • "Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."
  • "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
  • "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
  • "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
  • "Most people would rather give than get affection."
  • "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
  • "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
  • "Nature does nothing in vain."
  • "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
  • "No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
  • "No one loves the man whom he fears."
  • "No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
  • "Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
  • "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
  • "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
  • "Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."


Threads


There are no threads on this page. 

Anonymous  (Get credit for your thread)