Aristotle quote about philosophy from Poetics - Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
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“ Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. ”
 Aristotle, Poetics (c. 335 BC). copy citation

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Author Aristotle
Source Poetics
Topic philosophy poetry history
Date c. 335 BC
Language English
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Note Translated by S. H. Butcher
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1974/1974-h/1974-h.htm

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Aristotle quote about philosophy from Poetics - Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
Aristotle quote about philosophy from Poetics - Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.