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It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong. – Lawrence Dennis	added by Normando 1 year ago
Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person, as to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people. – The Pope	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbours. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, accused as he was of heresy by the chief priest Eurymedon, it was because he took to his heels in time. – Wieland	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago. – Dorothea Brande	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity." – Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see. – Shaquille ONeal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. – Will Cuppy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed. – Laertius Diogenes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. – Simeon Strunsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong.

– Lawrence Dennis

added by Normando
1 year ago

Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person, as to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people.

– The Pope

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

– Leon Trotsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbours. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, accused as he was of heresy by the chief priest Eurymedon, it was because he took to his heels in time.

– Wieland

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.

– Dorothea Brande

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

– Johnson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

– Shaquille ONeal