151 Quotes By Aristotle


It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle on men

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle on mom

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle on motivational

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle on nature

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

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle on nature

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle on nature

Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle on nature

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 on nature

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 on nature

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 on nature

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 on nature

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle on peace

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

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 on poetry

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle on politics

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

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle on politics

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle on power