Aristotle

AristotleAristotle (384-322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, drama, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government. [Українська] [Русский]

Aristotle Quotes

A friend is a second self.

—Aristotle

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

—Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

—Aristotle

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

—Aristotle

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

—Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

—Aristotle

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

—Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

—Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

—Aristotle

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

—Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

—Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

—Aristotle

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

—Aristotle

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

—Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

—Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

—Aristotle

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

—Aristotle

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

—Aristotle