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
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
Happiness is self-connectedness.
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.