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- To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysica
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b
- The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
- He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
- it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), unknown
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