Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

We are what we repeatedly do.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

The gods too are fond of a joke

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Aristotle, Physics

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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

Aristotle, Physics