Aristotle Top 10 Quotes


10

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics, 325 BCE)

9

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle (Poetics)

8

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle (Metaphysics)

7

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

Aristotle

6

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Aristotle (Politics)

5

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics, 325 BCE)

4

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle (Parts of Animals)

3

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

2

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics, 325 BCE)

1

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Aristotle (Attributed to Aristotle by Joannes Stobaeus in Florilegium)

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Aristotle Biography

Born: 384 BCE
Died: 322 BCE

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. He is considered to be, along with Plato and Socrates, the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy.

Notable Works

Metaphysics
Politics
The Nicomachean Ethics
(325 BCE)
Eudemian Ethics
Poetics
Rhetoric



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