Top 35 Aristotle Quotes


Aristotle, Greek Aristoteles (born 384 bce, Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece—died 322, Chalcis, Euboea), ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest intellectual figures of Western history. He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the framework and vehicle for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Even after the intellectual revolutions of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, Aristotelian concepts remained embedded in Western thinking.He was the founder of formal logic.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

All men by nature desire to know.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.


Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life: the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Our happiness depends upon ourselves.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.


He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Yes, the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.


Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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