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
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
Only you can take you to Funkytown.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.