Aristotle on Mental Health Quotes

"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

"Through discipline comes freedom."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Happiness is a state of activity."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"To be angry is easy; but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time is not within everyone's power."

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"Choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"The soul never thinks without a picture."

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another."

"We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way."

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."