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Aristotle Quotes - Page 16

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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Distraction, States, Factions

We are what we repeatedly do.

Inspirational, Life, Powerful

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Bars, Pleasure, Jury

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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

Art, Atheism, Woods

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

Happiness, Men, Perfect

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Art, Practice, Causes

Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

"Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Integrity, Destiny, Men

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

Political, Together, Association

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

Men, Views, Hands

Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.4

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Plato, Truth Is, My Friends

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

Habit, Courses, Vary

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.37

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Wisdom, Men, Knowing

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Men, Two, Want

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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

Animal, Men, Political

Politics bk. 1, 1253a

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Hero, Tragedy, Excess

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Teaching, Attention, Pay

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Happiness, Beach, Ocean

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Men, Mind, Hearing

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Happiness, Perfect, Soul

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Life, Spring, Men

"Rhetoric", II. 15. Par, III in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Business, Toil, Doe

He who hath many friends hath none.

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Character, Purpose, Virtue

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Men, Generous Spirit, Indulge In

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