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
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
Everyone honors the wise.
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
Man by nature wants to know.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.