The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional… — 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
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — 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
“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — 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
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
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which… — 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
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
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