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
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
The hand is the tool of tools.
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
Wit is cultured insolence.