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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
Art takes nature as its model.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
You should never think without an image.