Balance Quote by Julian Baggini

“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

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

— David Berlinski

“What the Greek called Kosmos was the image of a world that is not continuous but complete. Inevitably, then, the Greek man himself was…

— Oswald Spengler

Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the…

— John Stuart Mill

“In ways that have not yet been properly understood, philosophy had a second beginning in Abbasid society by the end of the ninth century…

— Dimitri Gutas

Modern science is a vast attempt to homogenize the universe. Aristotelian science, by contrast, remains faithful to our lived experience, and thus conceives of…

— David Roochnik

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is,…

— Richard Greenberg

“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for instance, to…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of…

— Bryant McGill

“On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage…

— Maggie Nelson