Aristotle Quotes on Thinking

6 quotes

  1. If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

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  2. Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

  3. It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

  4. It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

  5. That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

  6. The soul never thinks without a picture.

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