Aristotle Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of Aristotle quotes and sayings. He was a Greek philosopher and polymath who was a student of Plato as well as teacher of Alexander the Great.

“…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

“A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.”
– Aristotle

“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

“A friend is a second self.”
– Aristotle

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle

“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“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

“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 to be God-fearing and pious.”
– Aristotle

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

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

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
– Aristotle

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
– Aristotle

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
– Aristotle

“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

“And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”
– Aristotle

“Anger Is A Gift”
– Aristotle

“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

“Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.”
– Aristotle

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

“Bad people…are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
– Aristotle

“By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents”
– Aristotle

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
– Aristotle

“Choice not chance determines your destiny”
– Aristotle

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”
– Aristotle

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
– Aristotle

“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

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
– Aristotle

“Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.”
– Aristotle

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
– Aristotle

“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”
– Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”
– Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
– Aristotle

“Even that some people try deceived me many times … I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.”
– Aristotle

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
– Aristotle

“Evil brings men together.”
– Aristotle

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