Philosopher Aristotle Quotes

#1. The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

L.A. Hilden

#2. Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

Simon Critchley

#3. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

Alexander The Great

#4. Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Ben Jonson

#5. Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

Claudius Aelianus

#6. Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

Hilary Kornblith

#8. To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.

Laura Levine

#10. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Randal Marlin

#11. But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

Daniel Bell

#12. Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

Allan Bloom

#13. The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

Marina Endicott