Aristotle Quotes

“the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:reality poetry

“Hence it is evident that the good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:good virtue

“both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder; for even the good is better when it is harder.”

― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

topic:good

“if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the nature of a thing is its end.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:nature

“Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for the sake of man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:nature man

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

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:change

“But we must remember that good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:government law obedience

“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:government

“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons, and no government can stand which is not founded upon justice.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:government justice equality

“Our conclusion, then, is that political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:society virtue politics

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