| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26569 |
| QUOTATION: | Through Plato Aristotle came to believe in God, but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edith Hamilton (1867–1963), U.S. classical scholar, translator. The Echo of Greece, ch. 4, W.W. Norton (1957). |
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