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
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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.
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
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.