Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
Evils draw men together.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
We are what we continually do...