Aristotle Quotes

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Denn wir suchten ja das menschliche Gute und die menschliche Glückseligkeit. Als menschliche Tugend bezeichnen wir nun nicht die des Körpers, sondern die der Seele. Und die Glückseligkeit nennen wir die Tätigkeit der Seele.

The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.

As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth manifestly is not the good we are seeking, because it is for use, that is, for the sake of something further:

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

But to be constantly asking ‘What is the use of it?’ is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

من لا يستطيع الحياة في مجتمع أو لا يحتاج إلى ذلك فهو إما حيوان أو إله

وقتی زن نداری ، فقط زن نداری اما وقتی زن داری ، فقط زن داری

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.