Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.


— Aristotle


#exclusive #knowledge #power #sign #teaching

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


— Aristotle


#another #better #may #sure #than

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


— Aristotle


#first #friends #honor #love #our

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.


— Aristotle


#better #business #clearly #common #create

Man is by nature a political animal.


— Aristotle


#man #nature #political #political animal

Education is the best provision for old age.


— Aristotle


#best #education #old #old age #provision

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.


— Aristotle


#blaze #day #evident #eyes #most

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


— Aristotle


#acting #constantly #men #particular #quality

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


— Aristotle


#bashfulness #old #old age #ornament #reproach

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


— Aristotle


#been #down #even #laws #ought






About Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes




Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

back to top