Through Plato Aristotle came to believe in God, but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato cont...emplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him, but Aristotle thought God through logically and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is certain and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is moved is moved by another....... If that by which it is moved be itself moved, then this also must needs be moved by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover and, consequently, no other mover, seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are moved by the first mover, as the staff moves only because it is moved by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, moved by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One... must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," a...nd can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland--yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So doth, so is Religion; and this blind- ness too much light breeds; but unmoved thou... Of force must one, and forc'd but one allow; And the right; ask thy father which is she, let him ask his; though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatr...ed of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awak...e and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis--the final overthrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrass...ed, unabashed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »