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 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
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
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.