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 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.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Perception starts with the eye.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.