Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
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
Line
Indivisible
Lines
Reply
Science
Concerning
Part
Continuity
Made
Paradox
Way
Points
Zeno
Time
Considered
Nows
Parts
Aristotle
More quotes by Aristotle
The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
Aristotle
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
Aristotle
All communication must lead to change
Aristotle
To know what virtue is is not enough we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
Aristotle
Greed has no boundaries
Aristotle
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.
Aristotle
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?
Aristotle
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.
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
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
Aristotle
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
Aristotle
