Top 25 Aristotle Quotes On Philosophy & Virtue

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.

They who love in excess also hate in excess.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Genius and crazy are two sides of the same coin.

When you’re finished contemplating the expanse of the universe, and how you fit within the context of providence, it then becomes necessary for you to remember that without family and friends, neither the wealth of a king, nor the wisdom of a thousand men would satisfy. Let these words serve as a reminder to appreciate the real riches of life.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence... makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.