Quotes by Aristotel, page 4
127 quotes by Aristotel
Aristotel - greek Philosopher
Also called: Aristote.
Life period: 384 BC - 322 BC
Origin country: Greece
Biography: Was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AQuote by Aristotel about bad
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
AQuote by Aristotel about friendship, existence, things, world
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
AQuote by Aristotel about moral, beauty
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
AQuote by Aristotel about work, perfection, pleasure
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
AQuote by Aristotel about poetry, history
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AQuote by Aristotel about politics, glory, happiness, power, life
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
AQuote by Aristotel about philosophy
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
AQuote by Aristotel about politics, decline
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AQuote by Aristotel about pain, greatness, suffering, mind
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
AQuote by Aristotel about soul, mind, real estate, things
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
AQuote by Aristotel about art, magic, things
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AQuote by Aristotel about wisdom, pain, pleasure
