Quotes about Aristotle
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
- Aristotle
Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentially the same throughout the ages.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
- Aristotle
He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.
- Aristotle
Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Aristotle
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)
- Aristotle
The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.
- Aristotle
Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance of the mean, in point of excellence and rightness it is an extreme.
- Aristotle
There is one end we all have — not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being — and that is happiness.
- Aristotle