Quotes About Aristotle

Age 49. — A man's physical prime is between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the prime time for his soul and capacity for thought is around forty-nine.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. —Aristotle

What is it that Aristotle said: 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' We have approached that day.

Murió porque el pueblo no insistió en que las leyes fueran observadas, se hiciera justicia y se respetara la Constitución. Sin embargo, sigue hablando de leyes, a pesar de lo que Aristóteles dijo de las repúblicas, que se convierten en democracias y degeneran en despotismos.

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.

Rápido —volvió a incitarme Guillermo—, si no se comerá todo el Aristóteles! —¡Y morirá! —grité angustiado mientras corría a su encuentro y juntos nos poníamos a buscar. —¡No me importa que muera, el maldito! —gritaba Guillermo clavando los ojos en la oscuridad que nos rodeaba y moviéndose de un lado para otro.

C6 Now Vico here agrees with Aristotle. When he calls the world of nations the world of men, he means that what were beasts in the world of nature become men in the world of nations, and it is by the becoming of the world of nations that they become men. Or, as he puts it otherwise, in a sense they make the world of nations, and in the same sense they make themselves by making it [367, 520, 692].

The fact that Plato and Aristotle never mentioned them in their frequent and elaborate discussions of the nature of the soul and the springs of conduct is due not to any perverse neglect by them of notorious ingredients of daily life but to the historical circumstance that they were not acquainted with a special hypothesis the acceptance of which rests not on the discovery, but on the postulation, of these ghostly thrusts.

He applies in his practice what Aristotle abstracted in his theory of such practices.

Aristotle wrote that metaphor is the hallmark of genius.

Secondly, it is demonstrated that a corporeal object cannot be terminated by an incorporeal object, but either by a Void or by a Plenum, and in either case, beyond the world is Space which is ultimately no other than Matter; this is indeed that same passive force whereby active force, neither grudging nor otiose, is roused to activity. And the vanity is shewn of Aristotle's argument concerning the incompatibility of dimensions.

Part of the trouble is modern. Since the rescuing of the texts by the great philologists of the Nineteenth Century, one school after another has tried to inject its preconceptions into their meaning, according to the way in which they read the history of philosophical ideas. Part is ancient. And it begins very early. Plato, Aristotle, Eudemus, Theophrastus, Proclus, Simplicius are clearly at odds about what Parmenides may really have meant.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

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

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.