Aristotle Quotes About Time

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  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 and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Aristotle

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

  Aristotle

  Time, Power, Lapses

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

• The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

  Aristotle

  Time, Philosophical, Youth

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

  Aristotle

  Life, Time, Memories

  "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.

• Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  Aristotle

  Summer, Time, Blessed

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

• A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

  Aristotle

  Time, Art, Air

• In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

  Aristotle

  Time, Facts, Action

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1107a.15,

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