Top 69 Aristotle Philosophy Quotes
#1. Rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy.
Aristotle.
#3. For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
Aristotle.
#4. But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.
Aristotle.
#5. All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle.
#6. Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.
Aristotle.
#7. Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.
Aristotle.
#8. Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
Aristotle.
#9. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Aristotle.
#11. Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Aristotle.
#12. Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.
John Daniel
#13. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle.
#14. But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
Aristotle.
#15. Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle.
#16. 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
#17. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
Ayn Rand
#18. But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.
Ayn Rand
#19. Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
Ibn Khaldun
#20. Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
Aristotle.
#21. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle.
#22. We must become just be doing just acts.
Aristotle.
#23. Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda
#24. The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
Aristotle.
#25. I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,
Aristotle.
#26. I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Aristotle.
#27. Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle.
#29. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
Aristotle.
#30. That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
Immanuel Kant
#31. Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle.
#32. Philosophy is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Raheel Farooq
#33. In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
Aristotle.
#34. The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle.
#35. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
#36. Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna , and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.
Roger Bacon
#37. We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle.
#38. For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
Aristotle.
#39. It's a philosophical minefield!
Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
Jonathan L. Howard
#40. It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Aristotle.
#41. I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle.
#42. Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
Aristotle.
#43. The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
L.A. Hilden
#44. The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Aristotle.
#45. PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
Ambrose Bierce
#46. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle.
#47. The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
Aristotle.
#48. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.
Debasish Mridha
#49. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle.
#50. For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?
Aristotle.
#51. To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.
Aristotle.
#52. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
Aristotle.
#53. Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.
Alan Bradley
#54. Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Will Cuppy
#55. One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.
Aristotle.
#56. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle.
#57. For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals.
Jules Evans
#58. Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.
Hilary Kornblith
#60. We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.
Gregory J.E. Rawlins
#61. The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first philosophy and ethics.
Alan E. Johnson
#62. Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.
Aristotle.
#63. The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
Aristotle.
#64. I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god.
Debasish Mridha
#65. The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.
Artur Phleps
#67. For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. ========== Canterbury Tales
Anonymous
#68. My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#69. With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
Aristotle.
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