Aristotle Quotes About Nature
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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.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
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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.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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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.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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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.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
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But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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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.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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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.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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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.
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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.
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
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