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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
You are what you do repeatedly,
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Either a beast or a god.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.