Quotes from Aristotle

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

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

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Human beings are curious by nature.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.