Aristotle Firsts Quotations

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ...

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.