Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

202. “The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

203. “Authority is no source for Truth.”

— Aristotle

204. “Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

— Aristotle

205. “It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

— Aristotle

206. “Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.”

— Aristotle

207. “It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.”

— Aristotle

208. “Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden.”

— Aristotle

209. “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

— Aristotle

210. “A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.”

— Aristotle

211. “When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.”

— Aristotle

212. “The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.”

— Aristotle

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213. “In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.”

— Aristotle

214. “A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.”

— Aristotle

215. “Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.”

— Aristotle

216. “Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”

— Aristotle

217. “The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.”

— Aristotle

218. “Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

220. “We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.”

— Aristotle

221. “No one loves the man whom he fears.”

— Aristotle

222. “It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”

— Aristotle

223. “Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”

— Aristotle

224. “Art takes nature as its model.”

— Aristotle

225. “Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.”

— Aristotle

226. “Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.”

— Aristotle

227. “Nature operates in the shortest way possible.”

— Aristotle

228. “Worms are the intestines of the earth.”

— Aristotle

229. “Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

— Aristotle

230. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

— Aristotle

231. “Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

— Aristotle

232. “Nothing is what rocks dream about.”

— Aristotle

233. “Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.”

— Aristotle

234. “It is likely that unlikely things should happen.”

— Aristotle

235. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

— Aristotle

236. “The physician heals, Nature makes well.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

238. “To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.”

— Aristotle

239. “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

— Aristotle

240. “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

— Aristotle

241. “If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.”

— Aristotle

242. “Adventure is worthwhile.”

— Aristotle

243. “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

— Aristotle

244. “Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.”

— Aristotle

245. “For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”

— Aristotle

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246. “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.”

— Aristotle

247. “The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.”

— Aristotle

248. “By ‘life,’ we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.”

— Aristotle

249. “The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.”

— Aristotle

250. “The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”

— Aristotle