Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
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
Would
Philosophical
Otherwise
Virtue
Since
Use
Order
Become
Inquiring
Good
Inquiry
More quotes by Aristotle
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
Aristotle
In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Aristotle
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
We are what we continually do.
Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle
Your happiness depends on you alone.
Aristotle
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Aristotle
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
Aristotle
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Aristotle
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
Aristotle
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
Aristotle
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
Aristotle
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
Aristotle
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Aristotle
