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Famous Quotes By Aristotle
 All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. 
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is a waking dream.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
None of us learn anything we dont already know.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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