Aristotle Quotes

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the bloo...

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better t...

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render i...

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at ...

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sen...

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of...

We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere ho...

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c...

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very accepta...

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence domin...

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never o...

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolb...

Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its un...

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situat...

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit whe...