• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Aristotle Quotes
  • Aristotle Quotes   1272
  • So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Lying Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wise Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Truth Quotes , History Quotes
  • Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Law Quotes , Justice Quotes
  • Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Meditation Quotes