"Happiness is a state of activity."
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Aristotle
51 quotes
Quotes by Aristotle
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"Wit is educated insolence."
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
"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."
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
"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 high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
"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 gods too are fond of a joke."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
"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."
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
"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."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"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."