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Aristotle

Aristotle

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We learn, either by induction or by demonstration. Demonstration starts from the universal; induction from the particular.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Teaching is not a vital function, because it does not have an end in itself; the vital function is learning.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The city (polis) is one of the things that exist by nature; and man is, by nature, a political animal.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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And it is that nature does nothing in vain, and among the animals, man is the only one who possesses the word.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The mind is always right, while the appetite and imagination can be wrong.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Movement does not exist outside of things, since everything that changes, changes either in the order of substance or in quantity, or in quality, or in place.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The command of many is not good; one chief is enough.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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As the sight is to the body, reason is to the spirit.