Aristotle Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a '...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, s...

Adventure is worthwhile.

Happiness is a state of activity.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Happiness is activity of soul.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The hap...

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

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Wit is educated insolence.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.