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
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Your happiness depends on you alone.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good".