# Quote — Aristotle, Metaphysics

> For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanced little by little and stated difficulties about the greater matters, e.g. about the phenomena of the moon and those of the sun and of the stars, and about the genesis of the universe. And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant (whence even the lover of myth is in a sense a lover of Wisdom, for the myth is composed of wonders); therefore since they philosophized order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end. — Metaphysics by Aristotle – Book 1, ClassicalWisdom.com

- Author: [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md)
- Book: [Metaphysics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/metaphysics.md)
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> The totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts.

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> The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

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> "It is impossible for the same attribute at once to belong and not to belong to the same thing and in the same relation"; and we must add any further qualifications that may be necessary to meet logical objections. This is the most certain of principles, since it possesses the required definition; for it is impossible for anyone to suppose that the same thing is and is not, as some imagine that Heraclitus says.

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