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
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
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.
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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.
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.