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
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
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.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.