Aristotle on Purpose Quotes

"The end of all things is that for which they are done; the end of war is peace."

"Happiness is a state of activity."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

"The brave man is he who faces danger for the sake of a lasting peace."

"Variant translation: Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. As quoted in The Child: At Home and School (1944) by Edith M. Leonard, Lillian E. Miles, and Catherine S. Van der Kar, p. 203"

"No one chooses war for the sake of war, but for the sake of peace."

"Fear may be defined as a pain or disturbance due to a mental image of some destructive or painful evil in the future."

"Choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

"All men by nature desire to know."

"Peace is the goal of all human activity, even when we do not realize it."

"The end of war is peace; the end of toil is leisure."

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"Peace is the state in which we are free to pursue the highest goods."

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

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

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"Greatness of soul is not compatible with a life of fear."

"The courageous man withstands things because it is noble to do so."

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

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

"Men should be trained in the arts of war for the sake of peace."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"No one loves the man whom he fears."

"The ultimate object of war is peace."

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

"It is the mark of a man of great soul to be unable to live with his life at the mercy of another, except it be a friend."

"For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. 1461b.11"

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."