100 Quotes About Aristotle
- Author Joseph Glanvill
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Thomas Aquinas is but Aristotle sainted.
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- Author Edmond Halley
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.
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- Author Marco G. Casteleijn
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle
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- Author Francis Bacon
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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...
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- Author Janet M. Tavakoli
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Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.
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- Author Charles Taylor
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Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God.
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- Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
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- Author Gerardus Mercator
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When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.
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- Author Aristotle
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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.
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