Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a famous Greek philosopher and writer. He was the
student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle
writings cover many subjects, physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre,
logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. When
Alexander was leaving for the conquest of india which was famous for
mystics and buddhas, Aristotle had asked Alexander to bring back a
mystic from india and this request of Aristotle cause the chance meeting
between Alexander and eccentric mystic Diogenes. Aristotle is one of the
most important founding figures in Western philosophy.
- Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Hope is a waking dream.
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
overcomes his enemies.
- The gods too are fond of a joke.
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal
before the law.
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it.
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the
consciousness that we deserve them.
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a
god.
- Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication,
because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the
most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- 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.
- Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with
the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and
for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy.
- 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.
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being
commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person
entirely happy.
- Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than
history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the
particular.
- In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities.
What is a friend? One soul inhabiting two bodies."
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