Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.” — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too… — Gregory J.E. Rawlins Copy Share Image
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“This Aristotle knew definitely: the truth has the power to force or constrain men, all men alike, whether it be the great… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to the general form of Aristotle's view: the exercise of complex and more inclusive abilities is not anything in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
“Aristotle was no experimenter, and he relied too much on his preconceptions. Famously, Aristotle once proclaimed that women have fewer teeth than… — Andrew H. Thomas Copy Share Image
“The God of St. Thomas and Dante is a God Who loves, the god of Aristotle is a god who does not… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like… — Jules Evans Copy Share Image
“Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into "material" and "message," but abstractly, he had captured one of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
“But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image