Aristotle Quotes

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

If a thing moves, it lives.

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

The world is always in movement.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

... life, by definition, is never still.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Light is constant, we just turn over in it.