Best Aristotle Quotes And Advice

 

 

 

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the author of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of theory and Aristotelian tradition. Alongside his teacher Plato, he has been known as the “Father of Western Philosophy”. His compositions spread numerous subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government. Aristotle gave a mind boggling combination of the different ways of thinking existing preceding him, and it was most importantly from his lessons that the West acquired its intellectual lexicon, just as issues and strategies for request. Thus, his way of thinking has applied a remarkable impact on pretty much every type of learning in the West and it keeps on being a subject of contemporary philosophical dialogue.

Here are some of the Best Aristotle Quotes

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ~ Aristotle

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ~ Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~ Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. ~ Aristotle

Each man judges well the things he knows. ~ Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ~ Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~ Aristotle

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ~ Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state. ~ Aristotle

 

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ~ Aristotle

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. ~ 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

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny. ~ Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ Aristotle

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

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror, they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons. ~ Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership. ~ Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~ Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none. ~ Aristotle

 

Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~ Aristotle

Happiness is activity. ~ Aristotle Quotes

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. ~ Aristotle

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. ~ Aristotle

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ~ Aristotle

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ~ Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream. ~ Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle

I have gained this by a philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ~ Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. ~ Aristotle

 

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous. ~ Aristotle

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~ Aristotle

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ~ Aristotle

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize peace. ~ Aristotle

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ~ Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ~ Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ~ Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ~ Aristotle

 

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ~ Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal. ~ Aristotle Quotes

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ~ Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. ~ Aristotle

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ~ Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection. ~ Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ~ Aristotle

All human beings, by nature, desire to know. ~ Aristotle

 

 

 

50th of 100 Quotes By Aristotle

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ~ Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ~ Aristotle

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. ~ Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ~ Aristotle

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. ~ Aristotle

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. ~ Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. ~ Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ~ Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge. ~ Aristotle

 

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~ Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ~ Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~ Aristotle Quotes

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism. ~ Aristotle

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. ~ Aristotle

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. ~ Aristotle

The actuality of thought is life. ~ Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ~ Aristotle

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 at the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. ~ Aristotle

 

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~ Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ~ Aristotle

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. ~ Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ~ Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ~ Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke. ~ Aristotle Quotes

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others, and it is also a sign of genius since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar. ~ Aristotle

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. ~ Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~ Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ~ Aristotle

 

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~ Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~ Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ~ Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ~ Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. ~ Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle

The secret to humour is surprise. ~ Aristotle

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is. ~ Aristotle

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually, do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. ~ Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet. ~ Aristotle

 

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~ Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ~ Aristotle

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~ Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ~ Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ~ Aristotle Quotes

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ~ Aristotle

Through discipline comes freedom. ~ Aristotle

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. To love someone is to identify with them. ~ Aristotle

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ~ Aristotle

 

 

 

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