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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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Things of nature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Parts of Animals I.645a16

The wish of every legislator

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Nicomachean Ethics II.1103b4

General principle of holism

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Metaphysica 10f-1045a

The greatest in poetry is to have a command of metaphor

But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Poetics 1459a4

Defending with limbs vs. defending with speech

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Rhetoric I.1355b1

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