Aristotle Quotes

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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
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. — Mortimer Adler
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
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister
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
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
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
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
I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'. — Shaquille O'Neal
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
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
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
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton
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
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
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
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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