Quotations: Aristotelianism

The 18 quotations from the philosophers tied to this movement, each linked to the position it expresses.

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Aristotle12 quotations

All men by nature desire to know.

Metaphysics, I, 1, 980a

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Nature does nothing in vain.

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Nature is a principle of motion and change.

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Poetry is more philosophical and weightier than history: it speaks of the universal, history of the particular.

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The city is by nature prior to the individual, for the whole is necessarily prior to the part.

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The friend is another self.

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The good of man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are several virtues, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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This alone of all the sciences is free, for it alone exists for its own sake.

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Thought thinks itself in grasping the intelligible, and its thinking is a thinking of thinking.

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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false; while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way the person of practical wisdom would determine it.

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Thomas Aquinas6 quotations

Charity is a kind of friendship between man and God.

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For a war to be just, three things are necessary: the authority of the sovereign, a just cause, and a rightful intention.

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There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Disputed Questions on Truth, q. 2, a. 3, arg. 19

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Truth is the adequation of thing and intellect.

Disputed Questions on Truth, q. 1, a. 1

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Ultimate and perfect beatitude can lie only in the vision of the divine essence.

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Whatever is moved is moved by another; we must therefore arrive at a first mover moved by nothing, and this everyone understands to be God.

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