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Aristotle

Read through the most famous quotes from Aristotle




The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.


— Aristotle


#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.


— Aristotle


#perfection #pleasure #puts #work

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.


— Aristotle


#poverty #revolution #society #parenting

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


— Aristotle


#causes-of-action #nature

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.


— Aristotle


#peacemaking #politics #war #political

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.


— Aristotle


#play

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.


— Aristotle


#happiness #life #summer #life

Wit is educated insolence.


— Aristotle


#educated #insolence #wit

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.


— Aristotle


#friendship #friendship

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.


— Aristotle


#philosophy #writing #inspirational






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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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