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
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.