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
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.