Aristotle Quotes about Feelings

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Aristotle

Feelings

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Aristotle

Friendship, Uplifting, Feelings

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle

Men, Feelings, Firsts

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”

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Aristotle

Character, Men, Feelings

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Aristotle

Fall, Humble, Feelings

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

Aristotle

Mean, Two, Feelings

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

Aristotle

Mean, Missing, Feelings

Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

Aristotle

Attitude, Men, Feelings

Aristotle Quotes about Feelings

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