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
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.