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
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Wit is educated insolence.
We make war that we may live in peace.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.