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By Aristotle
All mankind have an instinctive desire of knowledge.
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- Aristotle on His Predecessors, being the first book of his Metaphysics, translated from the text edition of W. Christ, with introduction and notes by A. E. Taylor, 1907 · Metaphysics I.1, 980a21, p. 67
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- The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago, 1907 (Taylor's translation)
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The opening sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book I (Alpha), chapter 1, in A. E. Taylor's English translation of that book (Chicago, 1907). Better known as "All men by nature desire to know", which is a different translator's wording. Aristotle goes on to say that our delight in the senses, above all sight, shows this desire.