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Aristotle Quotes about Life

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Life, Success, Wisdom

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”

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Life, Helping Others, Essence

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Inspirational, Life, Success

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”

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Life, Positive, Buddhist

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Life, Quality, Determined

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love, Life, Positive

Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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

Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

Attributed to Aristotle in "Optimize Your Life!" by Bernhoff A. Dahl, p. 111, 2005.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Life, Teacher, Teaching

The actuality of thought is life.

Life, Actuality

Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.305, Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Life, Philosophical, Survival

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Life, Death, Education

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

We are what we repeatedly do.

Inspirational, Life, Powerful

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.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Life, Success, Philosophical

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Life, Nature, Philosophical

"Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

A friend is a second self.

Life, Friendship, Self

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

Life, Moving, Thinking

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Life, Exercise, Science

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Life, Archer, Purpose

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Life, Philosophical, Alcohol

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”

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Life, Gratitude, Courage

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

To perceive is to suffer.

Life, Depression, Education

Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

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