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
Most people would rather get than give affection
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.