Aristotelian Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in…
— Thomas Sprat
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,…
— Saul Bellow
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.…
— Mortimer Adler
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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you…
— Umberto Eco
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison…
— David Bentley Hart
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Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
— David Berlinski
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My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from…
— Antony Flew
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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of…
— Kenny Smith
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it…
— Rene Thom
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with…
— Fredric Jameson
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
— Alfred Korzybski
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
— Peter Frederick Strawson
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Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For…
— Jorge Luis Borges
Who Wrote These Aristotelian Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Aristotelian Quotes as follows: