Aristotle

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.

Aristotle

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Aristotle

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Aristotle

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.

Aristotle

Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle

Bad people…are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Beauty is the gift of God.

Aristotle