Aristotle Quote by Bertrand Russell

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them.…

— Stanley Krippner

Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding…

— E. O. Wilson

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a…

— Arianna Huffington

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality…

— Brigid Brophy

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that…

— Carl Sagan

Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of…

— Edmond Halley

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there…

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell