Aristotle quotes.
All 62 quotations by Aristotle in our collection.
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
“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.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“Memory is the scribe of the soul.”
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.”
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“Through discipline comes freedom.”
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
“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.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“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.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“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.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“Change in all things is sweet.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“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.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“We become brave by doing brave acts.”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
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