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
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Nature does nothing in vain.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.