A quotation from Aristotle
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
He classified the world. Logic, biology, ethics, politics; he gave each its language.
Aristotle studied under Plato for twenty years, then spent a lifetime disagreeing with him. Where Plato looked upward to the Forms, Aristotle looked around: at animals, constitutions, arguments, and stars. He invented formal logic, founded biology as a discipline, and wrote on ethics with a clarity that still holds. He tutored Alexander the Great, founded the Lyceum in Athens, and left behind a body of work that defined the shape of knowledge for centuries.
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He classified the world. Logic, biology, ethics, politics; he gave each its language. Aristotle studied under Plato for twenty years, then spent a lifetime disagreeing with him. Where Plato looked upward to the Forms, Aristotle looked around: at animals, constitutions, arguments, and stars. He invented fo…