Quotes from Aristotle

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Anger Is A Gift

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

We become brave by doing brave acts.

They who love in excess also hate in excess.