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
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
To perceive is to suffer.
A friend is a second self.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.