Aristotle Quotes

139 Aristotle quotes by 116 unique authors

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. — Immanuel Kant
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You… — Charles Van Doren
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldnâ€™t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy… — Edward Feser
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason â€“ that is, reason divorced from experience. — Benjamin Wiker
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's… — Ambrose Bierce
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the… — Jeanne Achterberg
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. — Elizabeth Montagu
You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all… — Seneca the Younger
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them… — Allan Bloom
Live and die in Aristotle's works. — Christopher Marlowe
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because… — Ken Burns
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,… — Kurt Vonnegut
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has… — Criss Jami
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. — Old Tom Morris
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a… — Robert McKee

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