Aristotle Quotes

139 Aristotle quotes by 116 unique authors

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. — Irving Babbitt
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean… — Simon McBurney
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable… — Immanuel Kant
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his… — Samuel Smiles
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting,… — Norman Lamm
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… — Gilbert Murray
Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of… — Unknown Author
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. — Francis Bacon
[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 wouldn’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 – 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

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