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 ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
Law is mind without reason.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Adventure is worthwhile.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.