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
Worms are the intestines of the earth.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.