Aristotle, one of the great philosophers, scientists and educators of ancient Greece, the culmination of Greek philosophy. He was Plato's student and Alexander's teacher. Later generations called him "the most knowledgeable man", and as an encyclopedic scientist, he contributed to almost every subject. In 335 BC, he opened a school in Athens called Lucion, known as the School of Escape. His writings covered ethics, metaphysics, psychology, economics, theology, political science, rhetoric, natural science, pedagogy, poetry, customs, and Athenian law. Aristotle's work constructed the first broad system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic and science, politics, and metaphysics.
1. The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just to survive.
2. Doing things repeatedly every day makes us, and then you will find that excellence is not an act, but a habit.
3. Indulging one's own desires is the greatest scourge, talking about the privacy of others is the greatest sin, and not knowing one's own fault is the greatest ailment.
4. People who don't have crazy personalities, there are definitely no huge geniuses.
5. It is duty to be humble to superiors, humble to peers is kind, humble to subordinates is noble, and humility to everyone is safe.
6. Happiness is the most appropriate place to put the soul. Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
7. Only those who have overcome their fears can attain true freedom. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
8. Time crushes everything; everything ages by the power of time and is forgotten in the passage of time. Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time。
9. I think that those who overcome desire are braver than those who defeat the enemy. （I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.）
10. Education is an ornament for the rich, a refuge for the poor.
11. The purpose of work is to gain free time.
12. To everyone is a friend, and in essence to no one is a friend.
13. The secret of humor is to be unexpected. The secret to humor is surprise.
14. Variations: There are seven reasons that determine the actions of all human beings: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Variant: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire。
15. Birds with the same feathers, since they come together.
16. Equality means that the poor do not take advantage of the rich.
17. The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
18 Wisdom exists not only in knowledge, but also in the ability to apply knowledge.
19. A man who indulges in pleasure without restraint becomes a debaucher; a man who, like a countryman, avoids all pleasures becomes an insensitive man.
20. Barking dogs are better than sleeping lions.
21. I love my teacher, and I love the truth even more.
22. The goal of a wise man is not to pursue happiness, but to avoid unhappiness as much as possible.
23. The bad obey because of fear, and the good obey because of love.
24."We cannot influence others through intelligence, but emotions can do so." ”
25. What kind of person you will become depends on what kind of things you repeat and do.
26 Man is the best of the animals in his most perfect time, but when he is cut off from law and justice, he is the worst of the animals. Political Science
27. Even God cannot change the past.
28. The accuracy of language is the basis of good style.
29. Too much and too little exercise, the same damage to physical strength; eating too much and too little, the same damage to health; only moderation can produce, enhance, maintain physical strength and health.
30. Those who are scientifically progressive and morally backward do not advance, but retreat.
31. Being friends, you won't put the scale between them.
32 What we do day in and day out determines who we are. Therefore, the so-called excellence does not refer to behavior, but to habits.
33. Best friends are like aliens.
34. Goodness is happiness, and moderation is the highest goodness and extreme beauty.
35. Good feelings are a prerequisite for friendship, but the two should not be confused.
36 The so-called slave is the one whose desire triumphs over reason.
37.The purpose of war must be for peace.
38. Career is the vivid unity of ideas and practices.
39 The serious imitate the actions of the noble, and the frivolous imitate the actions of the despicable.
40. Courage is the middle of confidence and fear.
41. Law is order, and only when there is good law can there be good order.
42. Bad habits are formed unconsciously.
43 In misfortune, useful friends are more necessary; in luck, noble friends are more necessary. In misfortune, the search for friends is out of necessity; in luck, the search for friends is out of nobility.
45. Life is full of opportunities and changes. When people are most proud, there is the greatest misfortune.
46. Rational people seek not pleasure, but just the absence of suffering. Schopenhauer 'The Wisdom of Life»
47. There are many kinds of fallacies, but there is only one kind of correctness, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed, and it is difficult to get off target.
48. Giving power to man is tantamount to luring a wolf into the house, because desire is animalistic, and even the best, once in power, tend to be corrupted by the passion of desire. Political Science
49.It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen. The duty of the poet is not to describe what has happened, but to describe what may happen. Poetics
50. True freedom can only be attained if one overcomes one's fears.
51. It is laughable that it is not so much due to the shortcomings of the person concerned as it is to be leveraged by their advantages.
52. The key to opening the doors of all science is undoubtedly the question mark.
53. The clearest style is formed by ordinary language.
54. Relaxation and entertainment are considered indispensable elements in life.
55.Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. Freedom is obedience to self-determined rules. The Ethics of Nicomacho
56. Repeat a piece of work, and that work becomes who we are. At that point, excellence is not an action, but a habit.
57. It's simple that anyone gets angry, but it's not easy to choose the right person, to grasp the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and to get angry in the right way. Ethics
58 All art and religion are but appendages of nature.
59. Emotion refers to lust, anger, fear, self-confidence, jealousy, joy, friendship, hatred, longing, competitiveness, compassion, and generally all kinds of feelings that accompany pain or pleasure.
60. Beauty is a natural advantage.
61.The rule of law is better than the rule of any one person. The so-called rule of law should contain two meanings: the established law is universally obeyed, and the obedience of everyone to the law is itself a well-made law.
62 Mercy is caused by a person suffering from bad luck, and fear is caused by the similarity of this person who suffers from bad luck to us.
63. Leisure is of course a form of happiness.
64 Virtue can be divided into two kinds: one is the virtue of wisdom and the other is the virtue of action, the former derived from learning and the latter derived from practice.
65. To live according to moral principles is to live happily ever after.
66. A man of magnanimity, regardless of whether the fate of his encounter is good or evil, can respond moderately to it. Success is not considered happy, failure is not sad, the reputation of the outside world is praised and degraded, do not mind, just do what should be done, do what can be done.
67. Law is reason without passion.
68.Whoever is good at thinking must be able to pursue, on the basis of his thinking, what is most beneficial to mankind through action.
69. Humans are natural social animals.
70. A swallow cannot carry spring, and a sunny day cannot bring vitality.
71 True virtue must not be without practical wisdom, and practical wisdom must not be without virtue.
72. There is only one way for people to be good, and there can be many ways to do evil.
73. Happiness lies in self-sufficiency.
74. Habits have actually become part of nature. In fact, habits are somewhat like nature, because the difference between "always" and "always" is not great, and nature belongs to the category of "always" and habit belongs to the category of "always".
75 For young people, friends are counselors who remind them not to make mistakes; for older people, friends are assistants who replenish their exhausted physical strength and take care of their difficulties in life; for adults, friends are the arms that assist them in accomplishing their grand causes.
76 At all times a thing is in motion, it is always in the state in which it is on the one hand, and in the state in which it tends to change on the other. Physics
77.Intellectuals are better than illiterate, just as the living are better than the dead.
78 He who loves the truth loves the truth when there is no danger, and loves the truth even more when it is dangerous.
79. It is because of the activity of thought that reason attains its supreme goodness. Metaphysics
80. Someone asks: Is it genius to write a good poem? Or is it art? My view is that hard work without rich genius, genius without training, are useless; the two should be used for each other, combined with each other.
81. There are three kinds of knowledge that human beings need: theory, practicality, and identification.
82. The desire for money is like a greedy beast, you never know how much precious youth is buried under its feet, and when the youth is exhausted, perhaps you can not keep anything, leaving only loneliness and abomination
83. Every area of nature is wonderful.
84 Man is essentially a social animal, and those who are born without sociality are either inferior to others or superhuman. Society actually preceded the individual. Individuals who cannot live in society, or who do not need to participate in social life because of self-satisfaction, are either beasts or gods.
85. Work inadvertently satisfies people's needs to stay away from the increasingly chaotic life.
86 Love is two bodies and one soul. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
87 There is nothing more to God's act of happiness than pure thought, and what is closest to this happiness in human action is perhaps the closest activity to thinking.
88 Beauty is a kind of goodness, and it causes pleasure precisely because it is good.
89. "Practice the truth of reason in accordance with the right desires." The Ethics of Nicomacho
90 We become just by exercising righteousness, moderate by moderation, and courageous by courageous action. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
91. To be happy, you have to be self-sufficient. The Ethics of Eudemo
92. Tantrums are commendable if you can do it: in the right place, to the right person, at the right moment, in the right way, for just reasons.
93 If evil becomes completely unbearable, it will also destroy itself.
94. Justice is not a part of virtue, but a whole of virtue; On the contrary, injustice is not a part of evil, but an entire evil.
95 Man is the most outstanding of all animals when he attains the perfection of virtue, but if he insists on going his own way. Without law and justice, he became the worst of all the beasts.
96. A swallow, a sunny day, is not a spring scene. A momentary rational life cannot last long or make people happy.
97."Every human being is naturally curious. Metaphysics
98. If you really want to alleviate a country's internal worries, you should rely on good legislation, not on chance.
99. You cannot be moral without knowing morality, and only by knowing morality can you be moral.
100 The ultimate value of life lies in awakening and thinking, not just survival.
101.Education must be based on three principles: moderation, possibility and propriety.
102 Matter and form are abstract concepts, and a concrete thing contains both.
103. The impossibility of trustworthiness is preferable to the possibility of untrustworthiness. Poetics
104. The noblest is justice, the best is health, and the happiest is the most satisfied. The Ethics of Nicomach
105. Material causes, formal causes, dynamic causes and purpose causes are the basic elements of the formation of things. Physics
106 The sage seeks not pleasure, but freedom from suffering.
107.The criterion for distinguishing between knowledge and non-knowledge is whether it can be imparted, with the former being able to impart and the latter not. Metaphysics
108. The dignity of a person is not in the matter of receiving honor, but in itself is truly worthy of this honor.
109 It is not enough for us to stop at knowing virtue, we must also try to cultivate it, to apply it, or to adopt methods that make us good people.
110. Evil events arise from evil.
111."Man who has attained success by virtue of his desire for goodness becomes the best animal, and if he does not preach etiquette and violates justice, he degenerates into the worst animal."
112. "Existence" • "Here and now" • "Survival", existence as existence, this eternally confusing question has been questioned since ancient times, is still being questioned today, and will continue to be questioned forever in the future. Metaphysics
113 The mind of all geniuses is connected to madness. It is absolutely impossible for the sublime, the eminent language to come out of the mouths of the mediocre, except for the agitated souls.
114. But happiness is learned and not by luck. For happiness consists in the virtuous activity of the soul, and in the virtuous activity of a lifetime. The Ethics of Nicomach
115. Life is about accidents and changes.
116. Form is in any case more important than matter, because form can be created.
117.A virtuous man often acts for the benefit of his friends and country, even at the expense of his own life, if necessary. He would rather give away the money and honor and all the goods that the world has fought for, and seek only his own nobility.
118 A truly noble man will benefit mankind.
119 Of all the senses we think vision is the best to use, it allows us to see clearly the many differences between things. Metaphysics
120 Wisdom is produced from universal knowledge and not from individual knowledge.
121 Political science does not create human beings, but it detaches them from nature and controls them.
122 A man is a brave man who faces what is right, from the right moment, and feels confident under such corresponding conditions.
123."Because of the surprise, from ancient times to the present, human philosophical thinking has been continuously triggered, and the questions and surprises make people feel ignorant, and in order to get rid of ignorance, he began to do philosophical examinations." ”
124. It's easy to get angry, anyone can get angry. But if you want to get angry with the right person, at the right time, with the right reasons and degrees, in the right way, it's not easy.
§ 125 Man is the best of the animals at his most perfect, but when he is cut off from law and justice, he is the worst of the animals. He is the least sacred of the animals, the most savage.
126.Politics is the association of free men, what politics pursues is not "life", but "good life", and what politics has to face and think about is the fate and development law of a community.
127. Beauty is more recommendive than a letter of introduction.
128.Arbitrators should be based on equity and judges should be based on the law.
129.The state is a well-organized society, which in essence is no different from other societies, but whose size should encompass other societies, each of which aims for a good, and the state should pursue the highest good. Political Science
130. We can rely only on our nature, not on money.
131 Justice is a virtue that rewards and punishes the righteous.
132.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Happy to have perfect performance at work.
§ 133 We consider to have known everything only when we know the root cause, the original origin and until the constituent elements. Physics
134.Education is the best guarantee for old age.
135 They engage in scholarship for the sake of knowledge without any practical purpose, and we do not seek wisdom for any other benefit, but for the sake of human freedom.
136 We assume that the truly good and wise have all their luck, that they always do the noblest things under the conditions of the time, and that they use their own strength to make the good better. The Ethics of Nicomach
137. Generosity is the moderation between profligacy and miserliness, solemnity is the middle between pride and obedience, modesty is the middle-of-the-road between shamelessness and shyness, elegance is the middle-of-the-road between funny and dull, nobility is the middle-of-the-road between humility and tenacity, and delicacy is the middle-of-the-road between tenacity and morbidity.
138.Evil draws men together. Evil brings people together.
139. Theories that make people noble, while they seem to have the power to attribute virtue to those who are inherently noble, have no power to motivate the majority to pursue goodness and beauty. Using theory to change habits formed in character is impossible, or difficult.
140. Metaphors are a sign of genius.
141 In education, practice must precede theory, and the training of the body must precede intellectual training.
142. Humans are naturally social animals.
143 No one chooses the whole world in isolation, for man is a political creature whose nature demands to live with him.
144. Always act in a fixed way, and one can develop habits.
145 The eminent man is right in every matter, and every time the true thing is revealed to him. The great man stands out because he sees the real thing in everything, and he himself is the existence of standards and scales.
146 If it is a tyrant, we can overthrow it, but what can we do if there are mobs everywhere?
147. Excellence will become eternal.
148. Poetry is a more philosophical and serious art than history.
149 It would be absurd to say that the happiness of the elders is not affected at all by the luck of their juniors, and not at all times.
150 We think that we have a complete understanding of a thing, and that it is impossible to do so only if we think we know the reason for its existence, and that it is only this reason that makes it exist. "Post-Analysis"
151. Thinking begins with questions and wonders.
152. A wise man is a good thinker. Wisdom is a practical rationality that is related to the good and evil of human affairs.
153 The solitary dwellers are either beasts or gods. I want you to be a god-like person, not a trapped beast.
154 Fear is the suffering that breeds when evil thoughts arise in the mind. Fear is pain arising from anticipation of evil.
155.Mental violence can take human life without shedding blood.
156."Poverty is the mother of revolution and sin. ”
157. "Sudden turn" refers to a change in the direction of action, in accordance with the principle of the rate of certainty or necessity, to the opposite direction of expectation.
157 It's easy to make friends, but friendship itself is a slow-growing fruit. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
158.Cruel is the strife of brothers. Sibling discord can be described as cruel.
159 No one can grasp the truth in its entirety.
160. The best life is contemplation, and the second best is the honor of giving to others.
161. The best way to avoid jealousy is to live up to its name.
162.The oral word is a symbol of psychological experience, and the written word is the symbol of the oral word.
§ 163 A man of high moral character does not hold a grudge, for the sign of a great heart is not to remember his own humiliations, but to forget them. The high-minded man does not bear grudges，for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries，but to forget them.
164. Tragedy to reveal the sinful, complete, imitation of action of a certain length in life, its medium is language, with all kinds of pleasant sounds. "Poetry Speaks"
165."This is actually our responsibility. In the pursuit of truth, destroy some of the things that are closest to us, especially philosophers like us or people who love wisdom. For, even though the two sides are close friends, our devotion to the truth transcends friendship.
166. A slight deviation from the truth at first will end up being a thousand miles away.
167. For the affirmation that everything is the truth is tantamount to affirming the affirmation of the opposite, and the result is to affirm that our own argument is false (for the affirmation of the opposite does not allow our argument to be the truth). But if everything is a fallacy, this affirmation is also a fallacy. If the claim that only our affirmation is not a fallacy, then we have to accept countless judgments of truth or falsehood. For whoever proposes true certainty is simultaneously declaring that affirmation is the truth, and so on, to infinity. Metaphysics
168.Young people want to show their superiority, between honor and money, preferring the former because they have not yet felt the need for money.
§ 169 Man is essentially a linguistic being.
170."The jealous man bears not only his own failures and setbacks, but also the successes of others, so he always shows himself in frustration. "Political Science"