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
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]