Philosophy Quote by Aristotle — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“Wit is educated insolence.”

“For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought”

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”

“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.”

“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”

“When you've had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.”