115+ Aristotle Quotes That Changed Western History Forever

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Hope is a waking dream.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

For the activity of the mind is life.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.