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
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
Nothing is what rocks dream about
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.
The quality of a life is determined by its activities
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.
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