Aristotle Quotes

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

the actuality of thought is life

It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

كل الأفعال الإنسانية تنبع من واحدة أو أكثر من هذه المسببات: المصادفة، الطبيعة، الإكراه، العادة، المنطق، العاطفة، الرغبة

This is the main question, with what activity one’s leisure is filled.

Change in all things is sweet.

For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy of the needy: none of them common good of all.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; // In feelings, not in figures on a dial. // We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives // Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements

Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.

Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.