Aristotle Quotes about History

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

History, Development, Ifs

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

Philosophical, History, Poetry

"Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Aristotle

Truth, History, Giving

Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

Aristotle Quotes about History

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