Top 36 Aristotle Greatest Quotes
#1. How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn't want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
Edward Feser
#2. I'm going to shatter into a thousand pieces from the intensity of this kiss alone.
Cora Carmack
#3. Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good.
James Joyce
#4. I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.
Donnie Yen
#5. Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.
Aristotle.
#6. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Aristotle.
#7. The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
Aristotle.
#8. The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
Aristotle.
#9. You create attention to attract attention.
Kurt Cobain
#11. I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
Mike Pence
#12. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle.
#13. Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
#14. The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
Aristotle.
#15. Honoria had a plan.
It had come to her in church that morning. (The ladies went; the gentlemen somehow managed to get out of it.) It wasn't terribly complicated; she needed only a sunny day, a halfway acceptable sense of direction, and a shovel.
Julia Quinn
#16. Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle.
#17. It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
Birdy
#18. The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle.
#19. There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.
Aristotle.
#20. There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe
Penny Reid
#22. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Aristotle.
#24. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle.
#25. Man is a political animal' said Aristotle telling one of the greatest lies in human history. For every man has more in common with the hills and with the stars than with other men.
William S. Burroughs
#26. The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.
Aristotle.
#27. There's a rainbow always after the rain. Don't you think it's worth waiting for?
Anonymous
#28. Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
Ben Jonson
#30. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle.
#31. The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Aristotle.
#32. The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.
Aristotle.
#33. Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of similarity in dissimilars.
Robert Bosnak
#34. The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.
Aristotle.
#35. The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Aristotle.
#36. The greatest victory is over self.
Aristotle.
