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.
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.