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en I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

en Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  Bertrand Russell

en [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.

en . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

en Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

en Live and die in Aristotle's works.
  Christopher Marlowe

en To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
  Samuel Johnson

en It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

en An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

en Aristotle was asked how much educated men are superior to the uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead
  Diogenes

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

en 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.

en Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness. Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle
  Hannah Arendt

en In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
  Timothy Leary


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