The Inspirational Wisdom of Aristotle

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Listen to episode 1038 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Inspirational Wisdom of Aristotle. Edited and adapted from a classic book of essays by Stephen Paget.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: This much I remember of Aristotle, that he calls Wonder the beginning of the love of Wisdom. To have a right judgment of our surroundings, we must wonder at them, and be surprised that they and we are met together. So long as we exercise this quickening sense of wonder, there is hope for us, and some justification of our presence here on earth---because we all are on the road that leads toward wisdom: and they alone are incorrigible fools to whom Nature comes natural.

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1:37.3	Today's reading was edited and adapted from a book of essays by Stephen Padgett published in 1911 this much I remember of
1:55.0	Aristotle that he calls wonder the beginning of a love of wisdom.
2:03.9	To have a right judgment of our surroundings,
2:06.3	we must wonder at them,
2:10.7	and be surprised that they and we are met together.
2:16.0	So long as we exercise this quickening sense of wonder,
2:20.3	there is hope for us, and some justification of our presence here on earth. Because we all are on the road that leads toward wisdom,
2:28.3	and they alone are incorrigible fools to whom nature comes natural. Once we have fallen into the bad habit of taking for granted what nature gives us,
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