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> [Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/sometimes-aristotle-analyses-his-terms-but-very-often-he-takes-them/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

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> [It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/it-is-doubtless-one-of-aristotle-s-great-services-that-he-conceived/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

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## Other authors on Aristotle

## More by Gilbert Murray

> [The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/the-average-beast-of-prey-is-a-decent-creature-who-merely-kills-for/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/sometimes-aristotle-analyses-his-terms-but-very-often-he-takes-them/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/the-fashions-of-the-ages-vary-in-this-direction-and-that-but-they/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/it-is-doubtless-one-of-aristotle-s-great-services-that-he-conceived/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/the-higher-greek-poetry-did-not-make-up-fictitious-plots-its-business/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/the-life-and-liberty-and-property-and-happiness-of-the-common-man/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/be-careful-in-dealing-with-a-man-who-cares-nothing-for-sensual/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/the-fact-is-that-much-misunderstanding-is-often-caused-by-our-modern/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/few-of-the-great-works-of-ancient-greek-literature-are-easy-reading/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/where-words-can-be-translated-into-equivalent-words-the-style-of-an/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/they-are-all-dead-now-diocletian-and-ignatius-cyril-and-hypatia/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/a-machine-is-a-great-moral-educator-if-a-horse-or-a-donkey-won-t-go/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/be-careful-in-dealing-with-a-man-who-cares-nothing-for-comfort-or/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

> [Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-murray/greek-was-very-much-a-live-language-and-a-language-still-unconscious/)

[Gilbert Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-murray/)

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