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
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
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.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
Peace is more difficult than war.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
We become just by the practice of just actions.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
Nothing is what rocks dream about
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.