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Aristotle Quotes about Desire

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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Men, Desire, Unions

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Mean, Desire, Should

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.

Believe, People, Desire

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Desire, Doe, Good Things

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.

Ambition, Men, Desire

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Men, Desire, Sisyphus

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

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Pain, Perception, Desire

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

Money, Guarantees That, Desire

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Mean, Desire, Purpose

Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Curiosity, Desire, Wonder

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.66, Aeterna Press

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Law, Desire, Reason

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle

Man by Nature desires to know.

Men, Desire, Knows

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Thinking, Desire, Divine

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Mean, Desire, Permit

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Children, Men, Desire

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

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Soul, Desire, Principles

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Father, Men, Desire

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.62, Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

People, Desire, Example

"Metaphysics" by Aristotle, Book I, (980a.21),

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Desire, Mankind, Possession

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Nature, Equality, Desire

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

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Desire, Would Be, Goes On

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press

All men desire by nature to know.

Men, Desire, Awareness

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Believe, Desire, Cases

Aristotle (2004). “The Metaphysics”, p.425, Penguin UK

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