Quotations from

Aristotle

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

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Quotes from Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

—Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

—Aristotle

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

—Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

—Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

—Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.

—Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.

—Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

—Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly.

—Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

—Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

—Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.

—Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.

—Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

—Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

—Aristotle