One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time. Aristotle More Quotes by Aristotle More Quotes From Aristotle Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled. Aristotle animalorderthinking 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 educationpeopleschool The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle philosophicalsuccesslife The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle philosophicalpassionlaw Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle humorouswittyinspirational Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. Aristotle belovedvirtueliberty Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle teachingeducationgraduation What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. Aristotle caretakenmen Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. Aristotle destinymaymen Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle moneygreekpeople Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. Aristotle lawanimalmen Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. Aristotle egyptskillsmath The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. Aristotle communityperfectclass Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension. Aristotle decisionoppositesjustice Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. Aristotle unityprinciplesorder Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. Aristotle governmentclassfall A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. Aristotle constitutionphilosophicalstates Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. Aristotle comedytragedymen Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle happyhappinessmean To perceive is to suffer. Aristotle educationdepressionlife
