Category Quotations

Aristotle says:  “It is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”

Aristotle says:  “It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

Aristotle says:  “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

Aristotle says:  “Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative … because change is primarily a ‘passing away.’ So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into…

Aristotle says:  “If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

Aristotle says:  “I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

Aristotle says:  “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

Aristotle says:  “He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”

Aristotle says:  “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

Aristotle says:  “Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”