Aristotle Quotes

4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotelēs; 384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the teacher of Theophrastus and founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology and government. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.

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Native Name: Ἀριστοτέλης

Alternative Names: the Stagirite • Aristotelis • Aristoteles

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[W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

Evil draws men together.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

the actuality of thought is life

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.

(Metaphysics, I, 982b 18–19)

تشابهت علينا الأيام فلم نعد نفرق بين حاضرنا ولا ماضينا و تساوت بمذاقها و ألوانها و رائحتها

كأننا صرنا محصنين من الدهشة فلم يعد يدهشنا شئ و توقفنا عن ادراك الاشياء التي تحدث حولنا

نبتعد عن طريق الحياة و نقترب من طريق الوحدة
الدهشة بداية العلم وفى الكون أشياء وأحداث كثيرة مدهشة أحداث وقعت من ألوف السنين وأحداث وقعت من ألوف الأيام وليس علينا الا ان نندهش وان نفتح عقولنا أوسع من عيوننا ونتساءل مامعنى ذلك؟

ولماذا؟

وهل سيحدث ماحدث؟

Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one, whom Homer denounces — the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts.

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.

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