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
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
Greed has no boundaries
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
You are what you do repeatedly,
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.