Aristotle Quotes on Life
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Aristotle Quotes on Life part 2
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
The hardest victory is the victory over oneself.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.