Aristotle Quotes About Growth

• The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

  Aristotle

  Children, Growth, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

• He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Science, Views

• He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

  Aristotle

  Science, Views, Growth

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.14, Aristotle

• Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

  Aristotle

  Science, Growth, Growing

• What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1083, Catholic Way Publishing

• The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

  Aristotle

  Soul, Perception, Growth

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