Aristotle Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

2. Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

3. Happiness is a state of activity.

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

5. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Metaphysics

6. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

7. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. The Nicomachean Ethics

8. The energy of the mind is the essence of life. The Philosophy of Aristotle

9. The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

10. The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 The Nicomachean Ethics

11. The secret to humor is surprise.

12. Wit is educated insolence.

13. With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. The Nicomachean Ethics

14. youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

15. All men by nature desire to know. Metaphysics

16. Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.

17. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. Poetics

18. Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. The Nicomachean Ethics

19. Hope is a waking dream.

20. I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

21. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light -Aristotle 100 quotes by Aristotle: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

22. It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

23. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. The Nicomachean Ethics

24. Philosophy can make people sick. Nicomachean Ethics

25. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

26. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

27. The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand. Posterior Analytics

28. The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

29. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

30. Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.