Quotes from Aristotle

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

It is, then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.

Every tragedy falls into two parts, — Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.