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
Change in all things is sweet.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Wit is educated insolence.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Well begun is half done.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.