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
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
There is honor in being a dog.
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.