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 physician heals, Nature makes well.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.
The hardest victory is the victory over self.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.