Quotes from Aristotle
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
- Aristotle
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
- Aristotle
Man by Nature desires to know.
- Aristotle
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
- Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
- Aristotle
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
- Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
- Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- 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 (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.
- Aristotle
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
- Aristotle