Aristotle Quotes
139 quotes by 118 authors
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,…
— Sissela Bok
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that…
— John Dryden
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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no…
— George Herbert
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
— Isaac Newton
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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He…
— Alexis Carrel
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we…
— Pete Hamill
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
— Alfred Sturtevant
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