Aristotle Quotes

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

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