He was a great figure in Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, biology, metaphysics, mathematics, physics,
botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of Plato who in turn
studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato’s
theory of forms.
Aristotle was a prolific writer and polymath, who radically influenced most areas of knowledge he touched.
He was the father of the field of logic, he was the first to develop a formalized system for reasoning.
Aristotle gave the special prominence to good reasoning combined with his deep belief in the scientific method forms.
(384 - 322 BCE)
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of
mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
~ Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ 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 moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares
in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
~ Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
~ Aristotle
The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens,
namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~ Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
~ Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right
manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
~ Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,
he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~ Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
~ Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~ Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~ Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~ Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he
cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain
conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~ Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
~ Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
~ Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
~ Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second,
the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
~ Aristotle
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort
of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
~ Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements
are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
~ Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us,
this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~ Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire.
~ Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue
or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
~ Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
~ Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
~ Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things
which are by nature most evident of all.
~ Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all
respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
~ Aristotle
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
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
~ Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~ Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
~ Aristotle
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
~ Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
~ Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge.
~ Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
~ Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~ Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
~ Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
~ Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~ Aristotle
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
~ Aristotle
Pythagoras, one of the greatest men in human history, was the Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious teacher.
Sometimes he appeared as man of science, sometimes as a preacher of mystic doctrines. He developed a school of thought
that accepted the passage of the soul (which never dies) into another body and established many influential mathematical and philosophical theories.
He founded the mystic Pythagorean cult devoted to the study of numbers, which the Pythagoreans saw as concrete, material objects.
(c. 575 B.C.E. - c. 495 B.C.E.)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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