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 tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
The best things are placed between extremes.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
Friendship is communion.
People generally despise where they flatter.