Quote

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Aristotle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Habit
Anything
Tends
Affection
Destroy

More quotes by Aristotle

Image
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
Image
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
Aristotle
Image
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle
Image
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Image
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
Aristotle
Image
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle
Image
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
Aristotle
Image
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Aristotle
Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
Aristotle
Image
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
Aristotle
Image
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Image
All art is concerned with coming into being for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
Aristotle
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Aristotle
Image
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
Image
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Aristotle
Image
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
Aristotle
Image
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
Aristotle