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
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
All men desire by nature to know.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Man by Nature desires to know.
All people by nature desire to know. An example of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.