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 Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.