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Aristotle Quotes about Nature

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Peace, Nature, War

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Nature, Philosophical, Passion

"Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Nature, Science, Views

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Nature, Causes, Chance

Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Family, Nature, Men

"Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens".

Man is by nature a political animal.

Nature, Philosophical, Animal

Politics bk. 1, 1253a

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Nature, Vain, Incomplete

Politics bk. 1, 1256b

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Life, Nature, Philosophical

"Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Nature, Science, Physicians

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Art, Nature, Environment

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Fashion, Nature, Lying

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Art, Nature, Supplements

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Nature, Great Poetry, Poetry Is

"Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation".

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Nature, Animal, Natural

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Nature, Truth, Mind

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Art, Nature, Men

Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

Nature, Children, Science

Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Art, Nature, Raison D'etre

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Nature, Science, Action

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1738, Princeton University Press

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Nature, Equality, Desire

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Nature, Science, Imperfect

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1112, Princeton University Press

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

Nature, Faults, Results

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

Nature, Science, Passing Away

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.551, Princeton University Press

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Life, Nature, Preparation

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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