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Aristotle Quotes about Pain

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We can't learn without pain.

We can't learn without pain.

Pain, Without Pain

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise, Pain, Philosophical

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

Pain, Perception, Desire

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Children, Pain, Learning

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Pain, Fear, Philosophical

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Sad, Suicide, Pain

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Pain, Opposites, Quality

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

Pain, Men, Law

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

Gratitude, Pain, Honor

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

Crush, Pain, Adversity

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Pain, Hate, Anger

Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

Pain, Mean, Awards

Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.12

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Pain, Noble, Causes

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Pain, Errors, Evil

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Pain, Mean, Bravery

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.84

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Laughter, Pain, Doe

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