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Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within the Lyceum and the wider 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 is referred to as the "Father of Western Philosophy".
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.
What was Aristotle's most famous quote?
Here is A selection of some of Aristotle most famous quotes to help you develop your logical thinking. Aristotle Quotes on love, happiness & life. Quotes on society, education and success by Aristotle.
Famous Quotes and Sayings by Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.― Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.― Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.― Aristotle
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.― Aristotle
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.― Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.― Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.― Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.― Aristotle
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.― Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.― Aristotle
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.― Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.― Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.― Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.― Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.― Aristotle
Through discipline comes freedom.― Aristotle
Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.― Aristotle
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.― Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.― Aristotle
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.― Aristotle
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.― Aristotle
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.― Aristotle
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.― Aristotle
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.― Aristotle
Aristotle Quotes About Friendship
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.― Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.― Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.― Aristotle
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.― Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.― Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.― Aristotle
A friend is a second self.― Aristotle
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.― Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.― Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.― Aristotle
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence.. makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.― Aristotle
Aristotle Quotes About Happiness
Happiness depends upon ourselves.― Aristotle
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.― Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.― Aristotle
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.― Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.― Aristotle
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.― Aristotle
Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves, The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.― Aristotle
Aristotle Quotes About Education
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.― Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.― Aristotle
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.― Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.― Aristotle
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.― Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.― Aristotle
All men by nature desire to know.― Aristotle
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.― Aristotle
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.― Aristotle
Most Famous Aristotle Quotes
Hope is a waking dream.― Aristotle
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.― Aristotle
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.― Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.― Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.― Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.― Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.― Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.― Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.― Aristotle
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.― Aristotle
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.― Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.― Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.― Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.― Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.― Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly.― Aristotle
Anybody can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.― Aristotle
The Law is Reason free from Passion.― Aristotle
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.― Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.― Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.― Aristotle
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.― Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.― Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.― Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.― Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.― Aristotle
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.― Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.― Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.― Aristotle
Philosophy can make people sick.― Aristotle
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.― Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.― Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.― Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.― Aristotle
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.― Aristotle
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.― Aristotle
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.― Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.― Aristotle
Memory is the scribe of the soul.― Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.― Aristotle
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.― Aristotle
Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.― Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a mental picture.― Aristotle
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.― Aristotle
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.― Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.― Aristotle
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.― Aristotle
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.― Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.― Aristotle
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.― Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.― Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.― Aristotle
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.― Aristotle
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.― Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.― Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.― Aristotle
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.― Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.― Aristotle
We become brave by doing brave acts.― Aristotle