Quotes from Aristotle

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

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