Aristotle Delight Quotations

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

All people by nature desire to know. An example of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves.

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude