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Simplicity in popular science

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Rhetoric II.1395b27

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Causes of every action

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Rhetoric I.1369a5

The life of money-making

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Nicomachean Ethics I.1096a5

Convincing impossibility and unconvincing possibility

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Poetics 1461b11

Poetry and history

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

Poetics 1451b6

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Poetics 1455a33

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