Famous Quotes / Aristotle
239 Quotations by Aristotle
- 141. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- 142. Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
- 143. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- 144. Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
- 145. So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one go ...
- 146. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insens ...
- 147. Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
- 148. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- 149. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- 150. The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential fa ...
- 151. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- 152. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, ...
- 153. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures no ...
- 154. The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- 155. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- 156. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- 157. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
- 158. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain f ...
- 159. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- 160. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.