Quotes By Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Man is by nature a political animal.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Change in all things is sweet.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Hope is a waking dream.

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

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.