Top 15 Aristotle Quotes

4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath

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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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"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all"

A friend to all is a friend to none.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Not great genius ever existed without some touch of madness.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Wit is educated insolence.