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
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
One has no friend who has many friends.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
We work to earn our leisure.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
Happiness is self-connectedness.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.