Aristotle Life Quotes

#1. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Bruno Bettelheim

#2. Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

Brandi L. Bates

#4. Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#5. But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

Daniel Bell

#6. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle

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#7. Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

Shawn Achor

#8. What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Martin Heidegger

#9. Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Mark Skousen

#10. This is the middle.
Things have had time to get complicated,
messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore ...
This is the thick of things.
So much is crowded into the middle
... too much to name, too much to think about.

Billy Collins

#11. He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Jack London

#12. C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Jackie Kennedy

#14. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Allan Bloom

#15. It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#16. No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

#17. Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles

#18. To Aristotle or to Plato the State is, above all, a large and powerful educative agency which gives the individual increased opportunities of self-development and greater capacities for the enjoyment of life.

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#19. In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Wilhelm Wundt

#20. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.

Eric Weiner

#21. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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#22. It was Aristotle who said, 'In life, be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Nikki Sex

#23. The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.

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