Aristotle Quotes

139 Aristotle quotes by 116 unique authors

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?â€ â€œNo, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different… — Haruki Murakami
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So… — Will Durant
What was Aristotleâ€™s life?â€™ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: â€˜He was born, he thought, he died.â€™ And all the rest is pure… — Martin Heidegger
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of… — Leon Trotsky
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out… — Michael Sandel
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way… — George Smoot
For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. — Charles Duhigg
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of… — Will Cuppy
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis. — Pierre Salinger
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by… — Gilbert Murray
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise… — Roger Ascham
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to… — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important holding on to peace. inspired by Aristotle — Nghi Lam
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. — Charles Van Doren
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of… — Friedrich Engels
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. --Aristotle — Aristotle
The dimness of our intellectual eyes Aristotle fitly compares to those of an owl at noonday. — Robert Boyle
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

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