Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Activity
State
Happiness
Inspirational
States
More quotes by Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
Aristotle
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Aristotle
Greed has no boundaries
Aristotle
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
Aristotle
Through discipline comes freedom.
Aristotle
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle
Friendship is communion.
Aristotle
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
Aristotle
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
Aristotle
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
Aristotle
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
Aristotle
People generally despise where they flatter.
Aristotle
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.
Aristotle
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
Aristotle
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
Aristotle
The many are more incorruptible than the few they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
Aristotle
