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Famous Aristotle Quotes
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
Source: Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
Source: Aristotle's criticisms of Plato
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
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
“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”
Source: Politics
“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“Philosophy is the science which considers truth.”
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
“Happiness is the highest good”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
Source: Pocket Aristotle