Quotes from Aristotle

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Happiness is activity of soul.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Men create the gods after their own images.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

All men by nature desire to know.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.