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 high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
A friend is another I.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.