Aristotle: Trending quotes (page 6)

“A friend is a second self.”

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

“[B]ecause that which is finite is always bounded with reference to something… it is necessary that there should be no end… [N]umber also appears to be infinite, and mathematical magnitudes, and that which is beyond the heavens. And since that which is beyond is infinite, body also appears to be infinite, and it would seem that there are infinite worlds; for why is there rather void here than there? …If also there is a vacuum, and an infinite place, it is necessary that there should be an infinite body: for in things which have a perpetual subsistence, capacity differs nothing from being. The speculation of the infinite is, however, attended with doubt: for many impossibilities happen both to those who do not admit that it has a subsistence, and to those who do. …It is …especially the province of a natural philosopher to consider if there be a sensible infinite magnitude.”

“… happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement….”

“Memory is the scribe of the soul”

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.”

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”