Aristotle famous quotes

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

#Leadership

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 in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-- Aristotle

#Life #Success #Time

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

#Friendship #Best Friend #Men

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
-- Aristotle

#Truth #Science #Thinking

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Graduation

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

#Life #Death #Education

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Motivational #Self

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

#Inspirational #Life #Success

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

#Inspirational #Education #Teacher

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Encouraging #Confidence

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
-- Aristotle

#Philosophical #Tyrants #People

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-- Aristotle

#Inspiration #Parent #Poverty

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
-- Aristotle

#Friendship #Feelings #Friendly

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

#Motivational #Wise #Destiny

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

#Pain #Fear #Philosophical

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
-- Aristotle

#Friendship #Funny Best Friend #Real Friends

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring

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

#Motivational #Inspiring #Leadership

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

#Friendship #Friends #Real Friends

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
-- Aristotle

#Class #States #Middle

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.
-- Aristotle

#Truth #History #Giving

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
-- Aristotle

#Long #Impossible #Argument

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Friendship #Best Friend

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
-- Aristotle

#Beauty #Beautiful #Gratitude

We make war that we may live in peace.
-- Aristotle

#Strength #Veterans Day #Peace

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
-- Aristotle

#Anger #Men #Praise

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
-- Aristotle

#Enemy #Common #Danger

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

#Integrity #Destiny #Men

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Business #Work

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Inability #Use

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
-- Aristotle

#Philosophical #Soul #Body

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

#Happiness #Beach #Ocean

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-- Aristotle

#Freedom #Fear #Athlete

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
-- Aristotle

#Principles #Firsts #Mathematics

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Requirements #Impossible

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
-- Aristotle

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

Happiness is activity.
-- Aristotle

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

#Graduation #Education #Sweet

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

#Wise #Pain #Philosophical

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Happiness #Lying

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
-- Aristotle

#Philosophy #Work #Tunnels

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
-- Aristotle

#Workout #Live Life #Philosophical

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
-- Aristotle

#Self #Consciousness #Conscious

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
-- Aristotle

#Animal #Hunting

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

#Leadership #Education #Teacher

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Business #Self Esteem

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

#Inspirational #Criticism #Doing Nothing

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
-- Aristotle

#Life #Nature #Philosophical

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

#Philosophical #Equality #Egalitarianism

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-- Aristotle

#Witty #Equality #Men

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
-- Aristotle

#Tyrants #People #Tasks

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

#Animal #Men #Law

Wonder implies the desire to learn.
-- Aristotle

#Curiosity #Desire #Wonder

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
-- Aristotle

#Faith #Education #Art

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
-- Aristotle

#Wise #Writing #Men

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
-- Aristotle

#Marriage #Husband #Men

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
-- Aristotle

#Learning

Art takes nature as its model.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Models

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
-- Aristotle

#Teacher #Teaching #Humor

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

#Life #Gratitude #Courage

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
-- Aristotle

#Friendship #Relationship #True Friend

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
-- Aristotle

#Funny #Creativity #Ideas

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
-- Aristotle

#Freedom #Equality #Men

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
-- Aristotle

#Knowing #Sick #Judging

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
-- Aristotle

#Life #Helping Others #Essence

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.
-- Aristotle

#Heart #Soul #Brain

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Artist #Art Is

The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
-- Aristotle

#Beauty #Beautiful

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
-- Aristotle

#Life #Quality #Determined

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
-- Aristotle

#Peace #War #Winning

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
-- Aristotle

#Way #Achieve #Express Yourself

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
-- Aristotle

#Truth #Mind #Degrees

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Training #Excellence

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.
-- Aristotle

#Liberty #Needs #Beast

The physician heals, Nature makes well.
-- Aristotle

#Nature #Physicians #Heal

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
-- Aristotle

#Praise #Standards #Higher Standards

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
-- Aristotle

#Inspiration #Character #Emotion

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Giving #Quality

Beauty is the gift of God
-- Aristotle

#Beauty #Gift From God

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
-- Aristotle

#Writing #Eye #Genius

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war
-- Aristotle

#Lonely #War #Play

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
-- Aristotle

#Friendship #People #Justice

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
-- Aristotle

#Music #Passion #Character

Happiness is a sort of action.
-- Aristotle

#Happiness #Action

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
-- Aristotle

#Business #War #Goal

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
-- Aristotle

#Disputes #Term #Paragraph

Memory is the scribe of the soul.
-- Aristotle

#Memories #Soul #Scribes

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
-- Aristotle

#People #Democracy #Excess

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
-- Aristotle

#Nature #Causes #Chance

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
-- Aristotle

#Fear #Tragedy #Catharsis

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
-- Aristotle

#Insanity #Anarchy #Sober

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
-- Aristotle

#Statistics

The actuality of thought is life.
-- Aristotle

#Life

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
-- Aristotle

#Men #Two #Sick

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
-- Aristotle

#Mean #Two #Goodness

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Soul #Theatre

Cruel is the strife of brothers.
-- Aristotle

#Brother #Strife