Quotes about Philosophy
Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.
— Aristotle
The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.
— Aristotle
Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;
— Aristotle
And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?
— Aristotle
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
— Aristotle
it seems impossible for all things to be one.
— Aristotle
It is, then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.
— Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.
— Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?
— Aristotle
For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.
— Aristotle