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 the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
No science ever defends its first principles.
Justice is Equality...but equality of what?
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.