29 Quotes by Aristotle about Philosophical

  • Author Aristotle
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    Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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    For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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    All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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    for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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