Writing Quote by John Gardner

“On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things”

— Jostein Gaarder

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

— Jay L. Garfield

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

“Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress.”

— John Mark Reynolds

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“The present work is, then, the masterpiece of one particular literary genre that flourished in the fourth century BC in Greece, that of the…

— Aristotle

“Aristotle also observed that every virtue seems to be bang in the middle of two vices. It occupies what he termed ‘the golden mean’…

— The School of Life

“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”

— Francis Bacon

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle”

— Greg Iles

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

“The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann