Aristotle Quotes

Aristotle

Profession : Philosopher

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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