"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services……" — Gilbert Murray
"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."
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12 Quotes by Gilbert Murray
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy…
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a…
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and…
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a…
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions…
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation…
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do…
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of…
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think,…
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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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