Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Aristotle

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Aristotle

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

Aristotle

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.

Aristotle

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

Aristotle

Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

Aristotle

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Aristotle