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Nature Quotes by Aristotle

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Aristotle observes that all men naturally desire to know and that learning brings pleasure to everyone. He argues that nature never works in vain and always aims toward an end. He also notes that the shape of heaven is spherical because that form fits its substance.

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The physician heals, Nature makes well.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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Art takes nature as its model.

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All men by nature desire to know.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

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Man by nature wants to know.

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Society punishes rebels; nature kills them

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be…

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent…

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by…

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the…

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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things…

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of…

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive…

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…

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“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who…

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It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but…

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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared…

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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into…

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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they…

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“Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And…

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not…

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“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if…

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously…

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“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this…

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“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it…

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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…

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In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and…

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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All men by nature desire to know.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.