Aristotle Quotes About Perception

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  Aristotle

  Perception, Genius, Talent

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Heart, Perfection

• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  Aristotle

  Real, Animal, Views

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

• Perception starts with the eye.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Perception

• Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Perception, Desire

• Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

  Aristotle

  Memories, Animal, Past

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

• Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

  Aristotle

  Eye, People, Perception

• 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

• At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Art, Knowledge

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

• Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

  Aristotle

  Imagination, Perception

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