Life Quote by John Stuart Mill

“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of the word.…

— Étienne Gilson

“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of the word.…

— Étienne Gilson

“This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a substitute for the Categories of Aristotle considered as a classification of Existences. The…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Logic, also, is founded upon suppositions to which nothing in the actual world corresponds,—for instance, on the supposition of the equality of things, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper…

— Ibn Khaldun

“The earliest medieval logical curriculum, studied from the time of Alcuin’s On Dialectic (late 780s?) until the late tenth century, was based mainly on…

— John Marenbon

“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e.,…

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods…

— Lev Shestov

This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the…

— Edmond Halley

“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude and variety…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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