Aristotle Quotes - Page 2

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Hope is a waking dream.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.