Aristotle Impossible Quotations

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit