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Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.


— Aristotle


#ideas #make #nor #number #once

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.


— Aristotle


#create #form #gods #image #life

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.


— Aristotle


#initial #later #least #multiplied #truth

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.


— Aristotle


#parts #sum #than #whole

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.


— Aristotle


#body #figure #impressed #more #must

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.


— Aristotle


#friends #goods #had #live #other

Friendship is essentially a partnership.


— Aristotle


#friendship #partnership

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.


— Aristotle


#hence #history #import #more #nature

Most people would rather give than get affection.


— Aristotle


#get #give #most #people #rather

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.


— Aristotle


#eye #increases #little #notice #strikes






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Did you know about Aristotle?

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world movement and other elements of Aristotelian thought. The final cause is its purpose or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. Politics

In addition to his works on ethics which address the individual Aristotle addressed the city in his work titled Politics.

All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs] Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology.

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