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Biography - Aristotle:

Greek philosopher.
Born: -384 - Died: -322
Period:
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

All men by nature desire knowledge.


Note 

Note



Other version: "All men naturally desire knowledge"


Source: Metaphysics

Internet Archive - Aristotle The Metaphysics (el) (en) 



All men by nature desire knowledge.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Alle Menschen streben von Natur aus nach Wissen.

French
Par nature tous les hommes désirent savoir.




See also 

See also...



Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.




Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;











Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.





No man is weak by choice.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.











Quotes

Aristotle also said...


Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.





One swallow does not make a summer.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





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





Nature does nothing in vain.





Man is by nature a political animal.












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