Quotes from Aristotle
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
- Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
- Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
- Aristotle
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
- Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
- Aristotle
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
- Aristotle
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
- Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
- Aristotle