Aristotle: The Complete Works

by Aristotle

But if the science of substance and the science which deals with the axioms are different, which of them is by nature more authoritative and prior?

there are certain things besides those in the material universe, and that these are the same as sensible things except that they are eternal while the latter are perishable.

Smell cant go through objects -lizzy

If there is nothing apart from individuals, there will be no object of thought, but all things will be objects of sense, and there will not be knowledge of anything, unless we say that sensation is knowledge.

strife is as much the cause of existence as of destruction.

Further, if unity-itself is indivisible, according to Zeno’s postulate it will be nothing.

all causes are beginnings.)

human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good.

dramatizing the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.

Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero.

The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen.

Sanity vs insanity

pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves.

men who are irascible or indolent,

Identity exists where the Complication and Unraveling are the same.