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
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.