Aristotle Quotes About History

• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, History, Poetry

  "Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

• If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

  Aristotle

  History, Development, Ifs

• A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

  Aristotle

  Truth, History, Giving

  Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

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