Famous Quotes and Quotations by
Aristotle
The Greek Philosopher
1. Dignity consists not in possessing honors,
but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
2. We are what we repeatedly do.
3. For the things we have to learn before we can do them,
we learn by doing them.
4. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
5. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
6. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
7. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
8. Without friends no one would choose to live,
though he had all other goods.
9. It is possible to fail in many ways...
while to succeed is possible only in one way.
10. What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
11. One swallow does not make a summer.
12. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
13. All men by nature desire knowledge.
14. Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
15. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
16. We make war that we may live in peace.
17. We must as second best...
take the least of the evils.
18. For the things we have to learn before we can do them,
we learn by doing them.
19. I have gained this by philosophy:
that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
20. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know,
but we must try to have and use it.
21. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
22. Nature does nothing uselessly.
23. They should rule who are able to rule best.
24. It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied,
and most men live only for the gratification of it.
25. Law is order, and good law is good order.
26. 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 the government to the utmost.
27. Well begun is half done.
28. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an
unconvincing possibility.
29. It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
30. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
31. Man is by nature a political animal.
32. Evil draws men together.
33. Even when laws have been written down,
they ought not always to remain unaltered.
34. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
35. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.