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
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.