Quote by Edward Feser Download Open image ““uncaused cause, or to use Aristotle’s famous expression, an Unmoved”” — Edward Feser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Aristotle says clearly, and St. Thomas follows him, that corporeal similitudes excite the memory more easily than the naked notions themselves.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania.” — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“It is not just that secularists happen to reject and oppose religion; it's that there is nothing more to their creed than rejecting and opposing religion. . . . The fact is that secularists are "for" reason and science only to the extent that they don't lead to religious conclusions; they celebrate free choice only insofar as one chooses against… — Edward Feser Copy Share
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he is – but if you’re… — Edward Feser Copy Share
Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
![“Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases…” quote by Edward Feser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fc/edward-feser-41693_accepting_preaching-christianity-to-skeptics-witho_969999.jpg)
