The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image