"Aristotle said that some people were only fit……" — C.S. Lewis
"Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More 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…
— 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…
— 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;…
— 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.…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— John Dryden
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