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
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
Law is mind without reason.
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
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.