Quotes By Author

Quotations By Aristotle

Action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Beauty

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Class

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Conservative-Liberal

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Courage

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

Danger

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Education

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Education

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Equality

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Evil

But we must not forget... this ritual expressed... certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.

Evil

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Happiness

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Religion

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Wit

Wit is educated insolence.