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- When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- 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 (384 BC - 322 BC)
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