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Quotation from On the Heavens by Aristotle
“The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again”
On the Heavens, Book I, Part 3, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922)
Aristotle finds support for his fifth body in the ancient name aither, which he takes to show that earlier generations reached the same conception of a distinct upper body.
Citation: "The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again" — Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book I, Part 3, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922). (id aristotle-on-the-heavens-q2)
