Top 25 Quotes by Aristotle of 1272 - Page 10

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

Educational, Teaching, Justice

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Aristotle

Anger, Men, Rage

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Aristotle

Character, Should, Young

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.273, Aristotle

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle

Single, Men, Silence

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

Aristotle

War, Tyrants, People

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Aristotle

Community, Together, Seems

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Aristotle

Men, Law, Cities

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Philosophical, Cities, City Life

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Aristotle

Men, Self, Cost

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1766, Princeton University Press

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

Aristotle

Moving, Moved

It is no easy task to be good.

Aristotle

Philosophy, Educational, Tasks

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Aristotle

Truth, Would Be

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Aristotle

Character, Self, Support

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

Aristotle

God, Names

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Aristotle

Motivation, Character, Patriotic

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Aristotle

Spiritual, Kindness, Men

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Aristotle

Lying, Government, Political

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Aristotle

Class, States, Middle

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3167, Modern Library

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Aristotle

Believe, People, Trying

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Aristotle

Friends, Good Friend, Fortune

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”