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
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
All men are alike when asleep.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
We are what we reblog.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.