Quotes from Aristotle

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

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

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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

Through discipline comes freedom.

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

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.