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
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
Character is revealed through action.
All men desire by nature to know.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
What we expect, that we find.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.