Quotes by Aristotle

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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.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

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Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his s...

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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

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Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation beca...

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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.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance wi...

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Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being sm...

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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of th...

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Author Bio

  • NameAristotle
  • DescriptionClassical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
  • AliasesAristoteles
  • Born384 BCE
  • Died322 BCE
  • CountryClassical Athens
  • ProfessionMetaphysician; Biologist; Cosmologist; Logician; Zoologist; Literary Critic; Mathematician; Ethicist; Epistemologist; Political Philosopher; Polymath; Philosopher Of Language