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
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
You should never think without an image.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
They should rule who are able to rule best.
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.