Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.”

— Aristotle

302. “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

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

— Aristotle

304. “A true friend is one soul divided into two people.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

306. “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

307. “When the looms spin by themselves, we’ll have no need for slaves.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

309. “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

310. “Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.”

— Aristotle

311. “It’s the fastest who gets paid, and it’s the fastest who gets laid.”

— Aristotle

312. “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

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

— Aristotle

314. “The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.”

— Aristotle

315. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”

— Aristotle

316. “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

317. “With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

— Aristotle

318. “The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

320. “Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”

— Aristotle

321. “The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.”

— Aristotle

322. “A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.”

— Aristotle

323. “The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.”

— Aristotle

324. “The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.”

— Aristotle

325. “A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.”

— Aristotle

326. “To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.”

— Aristotle

327. “Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.”

— Aristotle

328. “God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose.”

— Aristotle

329. “Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”

— Aristotle

330. “The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.”

— Aristotle

331. “It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

— Aristotle

332. “A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.”

— Aristotle

333. “Wickedness is nourished by lust.”

— Aristotle

334. “A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.”

— Aristotle

335. “Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.”

— Aristotle

336. “The intention makes the crime.”

— Aristotle

337. “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

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338. “The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number – tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.”

— Aristotle

339. “Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.”

— Aristotle

340. “Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!”

— Aristotle

341. “Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.”

— Aristotle

342. “Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it’s your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”

— Aristotle

343. “All proofs rest on premises.”

— Aristotle

344. “The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants.”

— Aristotle

345. “Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.”

— Aristotle

346. “Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”

— Aristotle

347. “It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

— Aristotle

348. “The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.”

— Aristotle

349. “The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.”

— Aristotle

350. “It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

— Aristotle