Aristotle (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