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
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Wit is educated insolence.
We make war that we may live in peace.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.