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“... men, the giants of thought, who formed his mind. What is he to do in this moment of crisis, pull Aristotle or Spinoza from the shelf and storm through the pages looking for consolation and advice? Rather archly, perhaps, Bellow went on to smile at the simplicity of some of his public: Certain readers of Herzog complained the book was difficult. Much as ...”

“... dreams of going on holiday to Greece, where he would like to visit Stagira, ‘the birthplace of Aristotle, I’d run around the track at Olympia, run in my underwear’. Hanta doesn’t take baths because he suspects them of spreading disease, ‘but sometimes, when a yearning for the Greek ideal of beauty comes over me, I’ll wash one of my feet or maybe ...”

“... with a probing arm or two, and sometimes lead them by the hand on a tour of the neighbourhood. Aristotle, mistaking curiosity for a lack of intelligence, called the octopus a ‘stupid creature’ because of its willingness to approach an extended human hand. Octopuses can recognise individual humans, and will respond differently to different ...”

“... for their legacy from Antiquity some very difficult and interesting statements in the Gospels and Aristotle. (The passages from these authorities should not be attempted in translation, not even in Mr Jackson’s.) The second period opens in the late Middle Ages and bursts into life with the voyages of discovery, the conquests in America, and the inauguration ...”

“... with Derrida and Foucault, Wordsworth is more useful than Mill or Russell, Rilke more useful than Aristotle or Hegel. And he is certainly right that ‘when Wordsworth and Hölderlin describe the natural world around us, they no longer play on an established gamut of references, as Pope could still do in Windsor Forest. They make us aware of something in ...”

“... of information about male homosexuality in historical order; after sections about Plato and Aristotle, she jumps four centuries to Plutarch’s dialogue on love, and then to epigrams in the Greek Anthology, some dating from the Hellenistic age, but others from the Imperial or even the Byzantine period, the novel of Achilles Tatius, and finally the ...”

“... many otherwise barely related lines of thought. Vitruvius and the Vitruvians loom large, but so do Aristotle, Plato and Hegel. A routine summary of Alberti, Serlio and Palladio is spiced with excursions into Fréart de Chantelou, Quatremère de Quincy and Diego da Sagredo. Le Brun’s physiognomic drawings are set in the context of Cartesian psychology and the ...”

“... Perhaps the difference in attitude is to be accounted for by the strange belief, expressed by Aristotle and by medical writers in the fourth century and after, that menstrual blood was identical with what is now known as amniotic fluid, which was regarded by them as the female equivalent of male semen, and thus a sustaining substance as well as a form of ...”

“... differs from, say, that of Greek tragedy, caused the underlying unity which was already clear to Aristotle and has been clear to the vast majority of unbiased readers to receive less attention than the real or fancied inconsistencies. Secondly, the discovery of Minoan and Mycenaean civilisation by the archaeologists induced an excessive preoccupation with ...”

“... He is now ‘tired of his mind’ and tired of pilosophy, in which ‘everything went wrong since Aristotle.’ But he is still a moralist, and what he fears most is ‘to find out that morality is unreal’. Evidently (there’s some guesswork to be done) this is what he does find out at the crisis of his relations with his granddaughter. He has already ...”

“... Descartes and Kant received their due and that French students were protected from the errors of Aristotle and Hegel. To rebel against Brunschvig’s Neo-Kantianism was thus necessarily a political as well as a philosophical project. Perhaps the most important resources for that project were provided by the lectures that Alexandre Kojève gave on Hegel’s ...”

“... of Proper Names’, L. Jonathan Cohen argues that, for example, one and the same name, ‘Aristotle’, denotes both the ancient philosopher and the modern ship-owner. This leads him to a meta-linguistic theory of naming: whether ‘Cicero denounced Cataline’ is true will depend on how Cicero is named. That in turn leads him to the conclusion that ...”

“... to be shocked and angry, and almost certainly unable to measure your response so judiciously. Like Aristotle, McGinn thinks it possible to distinguish just from unjust anger. But rational morality should nevertheless allow for the fact that quite a lot of rationally unsound human behaviour results from people being shocked or angry, perhaps only momentarily ...”

“... new life was constantly appearing, there manifestly was a God. The most acute observers, including Aristotle, had always given preformation short shrift. ‘Epigenesis’ – the gradual emergence of embryonic organs and structures from an undifferentiated state of matter, under the controlling action of a local formative agent – could be directly inferred ...”

“... you assumed you understood, humility follows on the unsurprising discovery that things which gave Aristotle … serious problems are lying about in your own head, like unopened mail waiting to be dealt with.’ Bodies and clothes: ‘Bodies differ from place to place and race to race, from person to person and from fat times to lean. Clothes battle against ...”