Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “Imagination is a sort of faint perception.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

404. “The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.”

— Aristotle

405. “A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.”

— Aristotle

406. “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

— Aristotle

407. “Happiness is the utilization of one’s talents along lines of excellence.”

— Aristotle

408. “Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.”

— Aristotle

409. “It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

— Aristotle

410. “The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.”

— Aristotle

411. “We deliberate not about ends, but about means.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

413. “Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

415. “For good is simple, evil manifold.”

— Aristotle

416. “Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.”

— Aristotle

417. “The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.”

— Aristotle

418. “Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.”

— Aristotle

419. “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”

— Aristotle

420. “Perception starts with the eye.”

— Aristotle

421. “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

— Aristotle

422. “The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.”

— Aristotle

423. “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

424. “Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

— Aristotle

425. “We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.”

— Aristotle

426. “It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.”

— Aristotle

427. “A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”

— Aristotle

428. “The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.”

— Aristotle

429. “All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

431. “Between friends there is no need of justice.”

— Aristotle

432. “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

— Aristotle

433. “Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.”

— Aristotle

434. “Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.”

— Aristotle

435. “Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”

— Aristotle

436. “When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.”

— Aristotle

437. “The actuality of thought is life.”

— Aristotle

438. “A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.”

— Aristotle

439. “Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

— Aristotle

440. “There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.”

— Aristotle

441. “Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

443. “Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.”

— Aristotle

444. “A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.”

— Aristotle

445. “Only you can take you to Funkytown.”

— Aristotle

446. “Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.”

— Aristotle

447. “Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.”

— Aristotle

448. “It has been well said that ‘he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.’ The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman – these are the virtues of a citizen.”

— Aristotle

449. “Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.”

— Aristotle

450. “The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.”

— Aristotle