Creative Quotations from Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Aristotle
(384BC-322BC) born on

Greek "writer, philosopher". "He is credited with "inventing" logic and the science of reasoning."

All men by nature desire knowledge.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""Metaphysics," bk. 1, ch. 1."
R:	""Poetics," Ch. 9"
A:	""Nicomachean Ethics," bk. VI, ch. 4, 1140a, line 11."
N:	""Nicomachean Ethics," bk. 10, ch. 7."
K:	"In "A Kick in the Seat of the Pants," by Roger von Oech, 1986."