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 man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
Either a beast or a god.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.