“All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.”
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Famous Aristotle Quotes
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn”
Source: Politics
“People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.”
“Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.”
“There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.”
Source: Rhetoric
Source: Physics
“It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.”
Source: The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
“All things are full of gods.”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.”
Source: Aristotle: the art of rhetoric
“Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.”
“Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.”