Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student…

“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

“I guess I was a mystery even to myself.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“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

“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is…

— Aristotle