Quotes from Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

No science ever defends its first principles.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.