"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
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Aristotle
51 quotes
Quotes by Aristotle
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"Happiness is a state of activity."
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"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."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"To perceive is to suffer."
"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
"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."
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
"He who hath many friends hath none."
"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."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"A friend to all is a friend to none."