Aristotle Quotes

Most popular Aristotle Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle quote.
We are what we repeatedly do.
— Aristotle

habit action

Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle quote.
Hope is a waking dream.
— Aristotle Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

hope

Beauty is a gift of god. - Aristotle quote.
Beauty is a gift of god.
— Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle quote.
Wit is educated insolence.
— Aristotle Rhetoric

wit

Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle quote.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
— Aristotle

nature

Law is reason free from passion. - Aristotle quote.
Law is reason free from passion.
— Aristotle
What soon grows old?  Gratitude. - Aristotle quote.
What soon grows old?  Gratitude.
— Aristotle Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

gratitude

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle quote.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
The actuality of thought is life. - Aristotle quote.
The actuality of thought is life.
— Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Aristotle quote.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
— Aristotle

hope

All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle quote.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
Moral virtue is the child of habit. - Aristotle quote.
Moral virtue is the child of habit.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

virtue

The end of labor is to gain leisure. - Aristotle quote.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle quote.
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle Politics

politics mankind man the animal

A man is the original of his actions. - Aristotle quote.
A man is the original of his actions.
— Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle quote.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle

quality

We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle quote.
We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle

war peace

The soul never thinks without a picture. - Aristotle quote.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
— Aristotle
Wonder is the first cause of philosophy. - Aristotle quote.
Wonder is the first cause of philosophy.
— Aristotle
Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle quote.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
— Aristotle

law

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. - Aristotle quote.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
— Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle quote.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
What is justice? To give every man his due. - Aristotle quote.
What is justice? To give every man his due.
— Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. - Aristotle quote.
Education is the best provision for old age.
— Aristotle
Melancholy men of all others are most witty. - Aristotle quote.
Melancholy men of all others are most witty.
— Aristotle
Friendship is one soul abiding in two bodies. - Aristotle quote.
Friendship is one soul abiding in two bodies.
— Aristotle
Our characters are the result of our conduct. - Aristotle quote.
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
— Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle quote.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
— Aristotle Politics

poverty

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. - Aristotle quote.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
— Aristotle

experience

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle quote.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle

quotations

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. - Aristotle quote.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
— Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice. - Aristotle quote.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

trouble

Philosophy is the science which considers truth. - Aristotle quote.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
— Aristotle
All we do is done with an eye to something else. - Aristotle quote.
All we do is done with an eye to something else.
— Aristotle

motives

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle quote.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
— Aristotle Lives of Eminent Philosophers

lying

It would be wrong to put friendship before truth. - Aristotle quote.
It would be wrong to put friendship before truth.
— Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle quote.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
No great genius has ever been without some madness. - Aristotle quote.
No great genius has ever been without some madness.
— Aristotle
In the naming of things one must go with the crowd. - Aristotle quote.
In the naming of things one must go with the crowd.
— Aristotle

language

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle quote.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle

friendship

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. - Aristotle quote.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
— Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle quote.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
— Aristotle

youth hope

All that we do is done with an eye to something else. - Aristotle quote.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

motives

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. - Aristotle quote.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle

genius

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial. - Aristotle quote.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

pleasure

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle quote.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
— Aristotle

insanity genius

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle quote.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle

friendship

Of man in general, the parts are greater than the whole. - Aristotle quote.
Of man in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
— Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle quote.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle

love

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. - Aristotle quote.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
— Aristotle

wisdom paradoxical

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle quote.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

education

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle quote.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
— Aristotle
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. - Aristotle quote.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

prosperity

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. - Aristotle quote.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
— Aristotle

mankind

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. - Aristotle quote.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
— Aristotle
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. - Aristotle quote.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

youth

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle quote.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
The good man thinks it is more blessed to give than to receive. - Aristotle quote.
The good man thinks it is more blessed to give than to receive.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

Giving

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. - Aristotle quote.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

genius insanity

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle quote.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle

power

Those who have never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle quote.
Those who have never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
— Aristotle
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers. - Aristotle quote.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
— Aristotle Politics

democracy

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle quote.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle

education

Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions. - Aristotle quote.
Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.
— Aristotle Metaphysics

success asking questions

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of public interest. - Aristotle quote.
Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of public interest.
— Aristotle

self-interest

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. - Aristotle quote.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle

solitude

My best friend is one who is wishing me well wishes, it for my sake. - Aristotle quote.
My best friend is one who is wishing me well wishes, it for my sake.
— Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle quote.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle

dignity proverbs

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. - Aristotle quote.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
— Aristotle Politics

law

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - Aristotle quote.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle

justice

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle quote.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle quote.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle

knowledge

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle quote.
The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. - Aristotle quote.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
— Aristotle Politics

law passion

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. - Aristotle quote.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
— Aristotle Lives of the Philosophers

beauty

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the hearts of men. - Aristotle quote.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the hearts of men.
— Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. - Aristotle quote.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle quote.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. - Aristotle quote.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
— Aristotle
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. - Aristotle quote.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. - Aristotle quote.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
— Aristotle Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

golden rules

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. - Aristotle quote.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
— Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics

friendship

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle quote.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
— Aristotle
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter. - Aristotle quote.
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
— Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. - Aristotle quote.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
— Aristotle
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. - Aristotle quote.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
— Aristotle
The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only. - Aristotle quote.
The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only.
— Aristotle
In educating the young we use pleasure and pain as rudders to steer their course. - Aristotle quote.
In educating the young we use pleasure and pain as rudders to steer their course.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

pleasure and pain

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle quote.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
Dignity and nobility does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle quote.
Dignity and nobility does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle quote.
The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing.
— Aristotle

youth

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. - Aristotle quote.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle Poetics

learning

To be acceptable as scientific knowledge a truth must be a deduction from other truths. - Aristotle quote.
To be acceptable as scientific knowledge a truth must be a deduction from other truths.
— Aristotle

science

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle quote.
Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
— Aristotle
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was, "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle quote.
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was, "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

friendship

Virtue is a mean state between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. - Aristotle quote.
Virtue is a mean state between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

virtue

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. - Aristotle quote.
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
— Aristotle
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own. - Aristotle quote.
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
— Aristotle
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle quote.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
— Aristotle
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. - Aristotle quote.
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
— Aristotle
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. - Aristotle quote.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
— Aristotle
We will more easily accomplish what is proper if, like archers, we have a target in sight. - Aristotle quote.
We will more easily accomplish what is proper if, like archers, we have a target in sight.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

accomplishment

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle quote.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle

ideas education

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of a man's everyday wants. - Aristotle quote.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of a man's everyday wants.
— Aristotle
How many a dispute could have been deflated if the disputants had dared to define their terms. - Aristotle quote.
How many a dispute could have been deflated if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
— Aristotle

arguments definitions

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. - Aristotle quote.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
— Aristotle
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. - Aristotle quote.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
— Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separate from law and justice, he is the worst. - Aristotle quote.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separate from law and justice, he is the worst.
— Aristotle

law

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. - Aristotle quote.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
— Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance. - Aristotle quote.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
— Aristotle

art

At his best, man is the noblest of all the animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle quote.
At his best, man is the noblest of all the animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
No man would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. - Aristotle quote.
No man would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle quote.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing.
— Aristotle
In the area of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. - Aristotle quote.
In the area of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
— Aristotle
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue. - Aristotle quote.
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

excellence

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. - Aristotle quote.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

action

Democracy arose from people who thought that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. - Aristotle quote.
Democracy arose from people who thought that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
— Aristotle
A man with a host of friends who slaps on the back every man he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. - Aristotle quote.
A man with a host of friends who slaps on the back every man he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
— Aristotle
Man is a goal seeking animal. Our life only has meaning if we are reaching out and striving for our goals. - Aristotle quote.
Man is a goal seeking animal. Our life only has meaning if we are reaching out and striving for our goals.
— Aristotle
A king ruleth as he ought; a tyrant as the lest; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few. - Aristotle quote.
A king ruleth as he ought; a tyrant as the lest; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
— Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle quote.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
The difference between an educated and uneducated man is the same difference as between being alive and being dead. - Aristotle quote.
The difference between an educated and uneducated man is the same difference as between being alive and being dead.
— Aristotle
If, in a word, it be in our power to do what is noble and what is disgraceful, it is equally in our power not to do it. - Aristotle quote.
If, in a word, it be in our power to do what is noble and what is disgraceful, it is equally in our power not to do it.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

self-control

It is not ill-bred to adopt a high manner with the great and the powerful, but it is vulgar to lord it over humble people. - Aristotle quote.
It is not ill-bred to adopt a high manner with the great and the powerful, but it is vulgar to lord it over humble people.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

manners

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. - Aristotle quote.
Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
— Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. - Aristotle quote.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
— Aristotle Florilegium

self-control the self bravery desire

For as bats' eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature, the most obvious of all. - Aristotle quote.
For as bats' eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature, the most obvious of all.
— Aristotle Metaphysics

truth

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. - Aristotle quote.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
— Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics

happiness excellence

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends upon the education of youth. - Aristotle quote.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends upon the education of youth.
— Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle quote.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle

politicians

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. - Aristotle quote.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
— Aristotle

revolution revolt

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. - Aristotle quote.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
— 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 quote.
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

morals

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 quote.
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 Nichomachean Ethics

happiness

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. - Aristotle quote.
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

goals purpose of life

It really lies in this: the one describes what has happened, the other what might. Hence poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular. - Aristotle quote.
It really lies in this: the one describes what has happened, the other what might. Hence poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.
— Aristotle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. - Aristotle quote.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
— Aristotle

equality democracy

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. - Aristotle quote.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
— Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. - Aristotle quote.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
— Aristotle
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way — that is not easy. - Aristotle quote.
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way — that is not easy.
— Aristotle

anger

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 quote.
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
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. - Aristotle quote.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

Goodness

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. - Aristotle quote.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
— Aristotle
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. - Aristotle quote.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
— 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 quote.
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

anger priorities

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.  It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars. - Aristotle quote.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.  It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.
— Aristotle Poetics

metaphor

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or excellence, or both, is more often found with those who are most highly cultivated in their mind and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities. - Aristotle quote.
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or excellence, or both, is more often found with those who are most highly cultivated in their mind and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
— Aristotle Politics

happiness

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle

friendship

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
— Aristotle Politics

family

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

law

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle

art

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle

thinking awareness

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.  Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
— Aristotle Politics

revolution