Aristotle Quotes About Heaven

• Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

  Aristotle

  God, Art, Men

• The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

  Aristotle

  Future, Heaven, Substance

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Heavens”, p.48, Aeterna Press

• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

  Aristotle

  Stars, Lying, Night

• ...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Opposites, Heaven

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