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
There is honor in being a dog.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Philosophy begins with wonder.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.