List of Best Motivational Quotes on Aristotle

Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:- Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece. Along with Plato, Aristotle is considered the “Father of Western Philosophy”, which inherited almost its entire lexicon from his teachings, including problems and methods of inquiry.

Aristotle was born circa 384 BC. in Stagira, a small town on the northern coast of Greece that was once a seaport. And he died on 322 BCE. His father Nicomachus named him Aristotle, which means “the best purpose”. His father served as a personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Though not much information is available about his …

A list of the best Aristotle quotes. This list is arranged according to which famous Aristotle quotes have received the most votes from philosophers like you, soon.

List of Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:

“No one loves the man whom he fears.”

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“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”

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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”




Famous Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is a truth.”

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“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.”

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“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

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“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have, is a slave by nature.”

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“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

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“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

Best Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:

“Law is the mind without reason.”

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“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

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“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

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“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

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“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”

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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.”

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“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”

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“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”

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“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

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“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

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“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

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“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”

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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

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“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

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“Most people would rather give than get affection.”

List of Inspirational Quotes on Aristotle:

“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”

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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

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“If one way is better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”

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“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

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“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

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“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”

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“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

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“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”

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“The gods too are fond of a joke.”

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“To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.”

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“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.”

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“Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

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“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing the brave action.”

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“In a democracy, the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

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“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.”

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

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“He who hath many friends hath none.”

Most Top Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

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“Change in all things is sweet.”

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“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

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“Education is the best provision for old age.”

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“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”

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“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

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“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.”

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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

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“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

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“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

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“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.”

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“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”




Quotes from Aristotle about the good:-

“The secret to humor is surprising.”

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“Bad men are full of repentance.”

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“Hope is a waking dream.”

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“Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.”

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“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

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“We make war that we may live in peace.”

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“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”

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“We make war that we may live in peace.”

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“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

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“The character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

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“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

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“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”

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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”

Most Inspirational Quotes on Aristotle:-

“Wit is educated insolence.”

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“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

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“The law is the reason, free from passion.”

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“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

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“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

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“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

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“The soul never thinks without a picture.”

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“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

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“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

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“Man is by nature a political animal.”

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“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

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“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

Top 10 Motivational Quotes on Aristotle:-

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

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“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

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“A friend to all is a friend to none”

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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

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