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
That which is excellent endures.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.