Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
Aristotle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristotle
Astronomer
Biologist
Cosmologist
Epistemologist
Ethicist
Geographer
Literary Critic
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Stageira
Aristoteles
Aristotelis
Beginning
Growth
Shall
Growing
Actually
Science
Obtain
Best
Elsewhere
Things
Insight
More quotes by Aristotle
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Aristotle
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
Aristotle
Greed has no boundaries
Aristotle
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Aristotle
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
Aristotle
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Aristotle
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Aristotle
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
Aristotle
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
Aristotle
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.
Aristotle
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
Aristotle
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
Aristotle
He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
Aristotle
