Aristotle: Trending quotes
Aristotle trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionBook II, Ch. III, pp. 107-113.
Physics
Aristotle book Categories
1b25-2a10; J. L. Ackrill (tr.), 1984-1995
Categories
Book III, Ch. VII, pp. 163-164.
Physics
Aristotle book Generation of Animals
Book I, 715b.15
Generation of Animals
Aristotle book Metaphysics
Book I, 980a.21: Opening paragraph of Metaphysics
The first sentence is in the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:10
Metaphysics
Variant: All men by nature desire knowledge.
Book III, Ch. IX, pp. 168-169.
Physics
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book I, 1099a.6
Nicomachean Ethics
Book II, Ch. VII, pp. 124-126.
Physics
Book VII, 1323b.1
Politics
Book III Ch. II as quoted by Florian Cajori (1899), as Aristotle's explanation of why bodies fall quicker in exact proportion to their weight.
On the Heavens
"The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities", translated from Lettre d’Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités, an Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia (1970), p. 72; translated from an ancient Greek text that survived only in Arabic translation, there is little acceptance that this is an authentic letter of Aristotle.
Disputed
“The law is reason unaffected by desire.”
Book III, 1287a.32
Politics
Variant: The Law is reason free from passion.
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book II, 1105b.9
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book II, 1103b
Nicomachean Ethics
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book IX, 1168b.1
Variants: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Nicomachean Ethics