Aristotle on Life (Education, Knowledge, Work, Justice, Dignity, Actions, Poverty, Happiness, Friendship, Acceptance, Self-control, etc)
Aristotle ( (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Law is mind without reason.”
“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”
“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.”
“All men by nature desire to know.”
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
“God has many names, though He is only one being.”
“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.”
“Man is by nature a civic animal.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.”
“Melancholy men are of all others the wittiest.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.”
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.”
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
“Quality is not an act. It is a habit.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.”
“Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
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