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
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.