quotes by Aristotle
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)
tags:
wisdom
856 people liked it
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
friendship,
soul
626 people liked it
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
education
104 people liked it
"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
anger
93 people liked it
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
education
82 people liked it
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
politics
72 people liked it
"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
— Aristotle
tags:
greek,
philosophy
70 people liked it
"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
— Aristotle
"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
criticism
35 people liked it
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
solitude
34 people liked it
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue and 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
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle
"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self."
— Aristotle
desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self."
— Aristotle
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
truth
22 people liked it
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
friends
19 people liked it
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
art
17 people liked it
"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
happiness
16 people liked it
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
dignity
16 people liked it
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
inequality
16 people liked it
"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
— Aristotle (Aristotle's Poetics)
— Aristotle (Aristotle's Poetics)
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
character
12 people liked it
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
learning
11 people liked it
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
tags:
love
11 people liked it
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own"
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
