Aristotle

Quotes

• “This opinion... appears to be ancient... that the one, excess and defect, are the principles of things... It is not... p...”
• “The old Greek philosophy, which in Europe in the later middle ages was synonymous with the works of Aristotle, considere...”
• “It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temp...”
• “Robert [Grosseteste] became much interested in science and scientific method... He was conscious of the dual approach by...”
• “Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these science...”
• “All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their ...”
• “We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus [all things being equal] of the demonstration which derives from fewer pos...”
• “Every realm of nature is marvellous: and as Heraclitus, when the strangers who came to visit him found him warming himse...”
• “Socrates and Plato had no time for Athenian democracy, and wanted a revived aristocratic government for their city. But ...”
• “Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited ... and good to that of the l...”
• “According to the notes in Plato: Republic Book X, edited by John Ferguson, p. 71, «the familiar 'amicus Plato sed magis ...”
• “In the old philosophy, a curious conjunction of ethical and physical prejudices had led to the notion that there was som...”
• “Nevertheless even under these [misfortunes] the force of nobility shines out, when a man bears calmly many great disaste...”
• “The refined and active, on the other hand, prefer honour, which I suppose may be said to be the end of the political lif...”
• “It is impossible for the same attribute at once to belong and not to belong to the same thing and in the same relation";...”
• “[T]he infinite is in capacity. That, however, which is infinite in capacity is not to be assumed as that which is infini...”
• “For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others wi...”
• “Since... nature is a principle of motion and mutation... it is necessary that we should not be ignorant of what motion i...”
• “The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities", translated from Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur...”
• “But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to recreation, the inventors o...”
• “If, then, in the sphere of action there is some one end which we desire for its own sake, and for the sake of which we d...”
• “Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn a...”
• “Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of h...”
• “Current scientific and philosophical usage is so deeply influenced by the Aristotelian tradition, which knows nothing of...”
• “This and many similar quotes with the same general meaning are misattributed to Aristotle as a result of Twitter attribu...”
• “Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the ge...”
• “.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our act...”
• “But nevertheless, even in these [misfortunes], nobility of the soul is conspicuous, when a man bears and digests many an...”
• “And surely to know what this good is, is of great importance for the conduct of life, for in that case we shall be like ...”
• “As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth is manifestly not the good of which we are in searc...”
• “As for him who neither possesses nor can acquire them, let him take to heart the words of Hesiod: ' He is the best of al...”
• “If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not know...”
• “If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this c...”
• “Plato... introduces two infinities, because both in increase and diminution there appears to be transcendency, and a pro...”
• “It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its sha...”
• “Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsym...”
• “Virtue then is a settled disposition of the mind as regards the choice of actions and feelings, consisting essentially i...”
• “Aristotle, who foresaw so many things, never dreamed of the social truth. Cuvier, whose sagacity is so highly lauded, wa...”
• “The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfec...”
• “Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370: "If you would escape moral an...”
• “[Aristotle] totally misrepresents Plato's doctrine of "Ideas." ... It is also pertinent to inquire, what is the differen...”
• “It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that w...”
• “Perhaps then we must begin with such facts as are known to us from individual experience. It is necessary therefore that...”
• “Variant: [And] one who experiences a difficulty and who feels wonder thinks that he does not understand..., so that, if ...”
• “Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends...”
• “But voice is a certain sound of that which is animated; for nothing inanimate emits a voice; but they are said to emit a...”
• “Aristotle, notwithstanding that for political reasons of his own he maintained a prudent silence as to certain esoteric ...”
• “Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain...”
• “Aristotle, that histrionic mountebank, who from behind a Greek mask has so long bewitched the Church of Christ, that mos...”
• “Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and ...”