Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

254. “Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do.”

— Aristotle

255. “No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

261. “Cruel is the strife of brothers.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

264. “Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”

— Aristotle

265. “Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.”

— Aristotle

266. “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”

— Aristotle

267. “Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.”

— Aristotle

268. “Evil brings men together.”

— Aristotle

269. “To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.”

— Aristotle

270. “The first principle of all action is leisure.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

272. “Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.”

— Aristotle

273. “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

— Aristotle

274. “The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.”

— Aristotle

275. “Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.”

— Aristotle

276. “Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.”

— Aristotle

277. “The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”

— Aristotle

278. “There is more both of beauty and of raison d’etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.”

— Aristotle

279. “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

280. “In justice is all virtues found in sum.”

— Aristotle

281. “The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.”

— Aristotle

282. “No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

— Aristotle

283. “Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.”

— Aristotle

284. “Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.”

— Aristotle

285. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.”

— Aristotle

286. “Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.”

— Aristotle

287. “The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.”

— Aristotle

288. “Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”

— Aristotle

289. “So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.”

— Aristotle

290. “For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.”

— Aristotle

291. “The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”

— Aristotle

292. “One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.”

— Aristotle

293. “All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.”

— Aristotle

294. “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

— Aristotle

295. “Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.”

— Aristotle

296. “The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.”

— Aristotle

297. “Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.”

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298. “A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.”

— Aristotle

299. “Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.”

— Aristotle

300. “All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”

— Aristotle