Quotes from Aristotle
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
- Aristotle
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
- Aristotle
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
- Aristotle
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
- Aristotle
Our actions determine our dispositions.
- Aristotle
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
- Aristotle
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
- Aristotle
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
- Aristotle
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
- Aristotle