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Aristotle Quotes | Quotes said by Aristotle

  • Aristotle Quote #1

    ...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

  • Aristotle Quote #2

    A friend to all is a friend to none.

  • Aristotle Quote #3

    A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

  • Aristotle Quote #4

    A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

  • Aristotle Quote #5

    A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  • Aristotle Quote #6

    Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge which may be made in common against all good things except virtue, and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength, health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using them wrongly.

  • Aristotle Quote #7

    All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

  • Aristotle Quote #8

    All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

  • Aristotle Quote #9

    All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  • Aristotle Quote #10

    All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

  • Aristotle Quote #11

    All men by nature desire knowledge.

  • Aristotle Quote #12

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

  • Aristotle Quote #13

    All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity.

  • Aristotle Quote #14

    And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once.

  • Aristotle Quote #15

    And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

  • Aristotle Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

  • Aristotle Quote #18

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

  • Aristotle Quote #19

    Bad men are full of repentance.

  • Aristotle Quote #20

    Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

  • Aristotle Quote #21

    By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

  • Aristotle Quote #22

    Change in all things is sweet.

  • Aristotle Quote #23

    Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

  • Aristotle Quote #24

    Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

  • Aristotle Quote #25

    Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

  • Aristotle Quote #26

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

  • Aristotle Quote #27

    Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  • Aristotle Quote #28

    Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  • Aristotle Quote #29

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

  • Aristotle Quote #30

    Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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