2
"Hope is a waking dream."
58+ Quotes by Aristotle
A curated collection of 58 inspirational quotes by Aristotle on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
Featured Quote
"Hope is a waking dream."
— Aristotle
All Quotes by Aristotle
3
"Change in all things is sweet."
4
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
5
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
6
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
7
"He who hath many friends hath none."
8
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
9
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
10
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
11
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
12
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
13
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
14
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
15
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
16
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
17
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
18
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
19
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
20
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
21
"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
22
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
23
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
24
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
25
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
26
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
27
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
28
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
29
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
30
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
31
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
32
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
33
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
34
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
35
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
36
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
37
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
38
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
39
"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
40
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
41
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
42
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
43
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
44
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
45
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
46
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
47
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
48
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
49
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
50
"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."
51
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
52
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
53
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
54
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
55
"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."
56
"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."
57
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
58
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."