Aristotle quotes

Explore the profound wisdom of the ancient Greek philosopher with insightful quotes and teachings from Aristotle. Dive deep into his thoughts on life, ethics, and philosophy.

For a warrior it is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

- Aristotle

Bad men are full of repentance.

- Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

- Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

- Aristotle

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

- Aristotle

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

- Aristotle

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

- Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

- Aristotle

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

- Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

- Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

- Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

- Aristotle

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

- Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Nature does nothing in vain.

- Aristotle

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

- Aristotle

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

- Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

- Aristotle

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

- Aristotle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

- Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

- Aristotle