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
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
All communication must lead to change
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
Nothing is what rocks dream about
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
We become just by the practice of just actions.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
Peace is more difficult than war.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
In justice is all virtues found in sum.