Quotes about Philosophy
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.
— Aristotle
those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.
— Aristotle
a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.
— Aristotle
If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?
— Aristotle
Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.
— Aristotle
The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.
— Aristotle
Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;
— Aristotle
And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?
— Aristotle
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
— Aristotle
it seems impossible for all things to be one.
— Aristotle
It is, then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.
— Aristotle