Aristotle Quotes And Sayings

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“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
– Aristotle

“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.”
– Aristotle

“The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.”
– Aristotle

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
– Aristotle

“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
– Aristotle

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
– Aristotle

“The poet’s function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible as being probable or necessary…Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
– Aristotle

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle

“The secret to humor is surprise.”
– Aristotle

“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”
– Aristotle

“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
– Aristotle

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
– Aristotle

“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”
– Aristotle

“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness”
– Aristotle

“Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.”
– Aristotle

“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
– Aristotle

“Those who cannot bravely face danger are”
– Aristotle

“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

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
– Aristotle

“Through discipline comes freedom.”
– Aristotle

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”
– Aristotle

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
– Aristotle

“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”
– Aristotle

“To perceive is to suffer.”
– Aristotle

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
– Aristotle

“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
– Aristotle

“We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.”
– Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
– Aristotle

“We are what we repetitively do. Success is not an action but a habit.”
– Aristotle

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