To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
AristotleHence 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.
AristotleIt is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
AristotleBut nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.
Aristotle