Aristotle: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

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

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

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

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

“If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.”

“For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”