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“It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition as he…

— John Gardner

“And what about these, Socrates? Things that might seem absurd, like hair and mud and dirt, or anything else totally undignified and worthless? Are…

— Plato

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

“Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's…

— Jack Holland

“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science from the…

— John D. Barrow

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

“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

“Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress.”

— John Mark Reynolds

“Aristotle drew a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The way he put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing…

— Thomas Cathcart

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

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

— Robert South

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I…

— Hilary Kornblith