Aristotle Life Quotations

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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

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

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

The actuality of thought is life.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

A friend is a second self.

To perceive is to suffer.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

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

The quality of a life is determined by its activities

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life