Aristotle Quotes
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
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.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
All proofs rest on premises.Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
