But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
