Aristotle Quotes

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.
- Aristotle

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle

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.
- Aristotle

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle