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 those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
Nothing is what rocks dream about
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
We become just by the practice of just actions.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
Peace is more difficult than war.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
All art is concerned with coming into being.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.