# Quote — Aristotle, Metaphysics

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

- Author: [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md)
- Book: [Metaphysics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/metaphysics.md)
- Page: 691
- Original (grc): οὐ γὰρ δεῖν ἐπιτάττεσθαι τὸν σοφὸν ἀλλ᾽ ἐπιτάττειν, καὶ οὐ τοῦτον ἑτέρῳ πείθεσθαι, ἀλλὰ τούτῳ τὸν ἧττον σοφόν.
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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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> "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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> If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

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