Aristotle Quotes

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”

― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

“poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:poverty

“As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:science politics

“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:philosophy history poetry

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:art poetry

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:law business

“He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:democracy

“Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are...”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:democracy tyranny

“he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:respect leadership

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