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
One has no friend who has many friends.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
We can't learn without pain.
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.