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
We work to earn our leisure.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
One has no friend who has many friends.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
We can't learn without pain.
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.