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
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
all he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.