133 quotes by Aristotle

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” — Aristotle

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” — Aristotle

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“The secret to humor is surprise.” — Aristotle

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“Wit is educated insolence.” — Aristotle

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“All men by nature desire knowledge.” — Aristotle

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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” — Aristotle

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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” — Aristotle

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“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.” — Aristotle

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“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” — Aristotle

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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle

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“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.” — Aristotle

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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” — Aristotle

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“Nature does nothing in vain.” — Aristotle

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.” — Aristotle

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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“We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” — Aristotle

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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” — Aristotle

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“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” — Aristotle

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“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.” — Aristotle

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