#aristotle

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things. ↗

— Ken Burns

#because #begin #editing #elements #episode

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#corresponding #divides #faculty #important #inner

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#another #aristotle #country #judge #laws

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#aristotle #because #big #day #down

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#big #i #like #would

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. ↗

— Robert South

#aristotle #athens #paradise #rubbish #rudiments

I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#aristotle #concealment #courtesy #partridge-and-cock #age

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#knowledge #logic #medieval #religion #age

Nature is our book," [Aristotle] would say. "It is the most sacred text we have. Line by line, reason will unlock the mysteries of our world, and once we understand them it will change the way we think. ↗

— J.L. Taylor

#change

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. ↗

— Aristotle

#equality