Famous Quotes

Quotes by Aristotle

• 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 a waking dream.
• Hope is the dream of a waking man.
• 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.
• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
• 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 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.
• 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 during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
• 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.
• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.