It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he…

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“He saw clearly the truth other men didn’t. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use…

— Jessica Bird

“Distinguish clearly truth from lies and fact from fiction.”

— Steven Redhead

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived…

— Gilbert Murray

“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;…

— Martin Heidegger

The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare,…

— Marina Endicott

“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“We are what we repeatedly do. —Aristotle”

— Joe Navarro

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }”

— Alexander the Great

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms…

— Friedrich Engels

“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by…

— Bertrand Russell

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin