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Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.


— Aristotle


#literature #philosophy #art

Philosophy can make people sick.


— Aristotle


#ethics

The secret to humor is surprise.


— Aristotle


#secret #surprise

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world


— Aristotle


#spirituality #inspirational

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.


— Aristotle


#finer #history #more #only #particular

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.


— Aristotle


#equality #governement #law #political-philosophy #rights

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.


— Aristotle


#avoid #pain #pleasure #secure #wise

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.


— Aristotle


#courage #first #guarantees #human #human qualities

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


— Aristotle


#life

The gods too are fond of a joke.


— Aristotle


#gods #joke #too






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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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