“Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.”
The Crow
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)
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“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.”
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1950s

“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”
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L'art n'est pas chaste [...], on devrait l’interdire aux ignorants innocents, ne jamais mettre en contact avec lui ceux qui y sont insuffisamment préparés. Oui, l'art est dangereux. Ou s'il est chaste, ce n'est pas de l'art.
Quote by Antonina Vallentin (1963 [1957]), Picasso, p. 168.
1960s
On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Ch. 3 : Aristotle: Politics Is Not Philosophy