Aristotle on Human Nature
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Aristotle, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Aristotle and filed under "Human Nature" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #228: "Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #115563: "Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
7 Quotes by Aristotle on Human Nature
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
"We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils."
"After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer"
"Nature does not do anything in vain."
"Since... nature is a principle of motion and mutation... it is necessary that we should not be ignorant of what motion is... But motion appears to belong to things continuous; and the infinite first presents itself to the view in that which is continuous. ...[F]requently ...those who define the continuous, employ the nature or the infinite, as if that which is divisible to infinity is continuous."
"But it is better to assume principles less in number and finite, as Empedocles makes them to be. All philosophers... make principles to be contraries... (for Parmenides makes principles to be hot and cold, and these he demominates fire and earth) as those who introduce as principles the rare and the dense. But Democritus makes the principles to be the solid and the void; of which the former, he says, has the relation of being, and the latter of non-being. ...it is necessary that principles should be neither produced from each other, nor from other things; and that from these all things should be generated. But these requisites are inherent in the first contraries: for, because they are first, they are not from other things; and because they are contraries, they are not from each other."