Comedy Quote by Simon Critchley

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }”

— Alexander the Great

“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of illusion.”

— C.S. Lewis

“A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and…

— Laura Levine

“The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing,…

— L.A. Hilden

“Aristotle says clearly, and St. Thomas follows him, that corporeal similitudes excite the memory more easily than the naked notions themselves.”

— John Crowley

“I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all…

— James Joyce

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

— Anne Carson

“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”

— C.S. Lewis

“It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt. Moreover…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man…

— Michel de Montaigne