Quotes from Aristotle
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
- Aristotle
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
- Aristotle
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
- Aristotle
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
- Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly.
- 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
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
Philosophy can make people sick.
- Aristotle
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
- Aristotle