The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — 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
