Aristotle Quotes About Values

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

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Survival

• We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Perfect, Realization

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

• We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Elements, Immortality

  Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). “Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

• Love well, be loved and do something of value.

  Aristotle

  Wells, Values

• Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

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

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