It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Quotes about aristotles (9 Quotes)
If there is any blame for losing Aristotle, it belongs to Greek philosophy itself, not to the Christianity Freeman blames. In the course of a few centuries ... simply dispersed, allowing Aristotle's works to fall into an undeserved neglect.
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Aristotle's geographical speculations anticipated by almost two thousand years the rationale behind Columbus' voyage. Ferdinand Columbus suggested that his father was familiar with the following passage 'Again, our observations of the stars make it evide.
Live and die in Aristotle's works.
'T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's 'Rhetoric,' lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
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.
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.