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
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Man by nature wants to know.
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Everyone honors the wise.
Love well, be loved and do something of value.
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.