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
Evils draw men together.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Evil draws men together.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Education begins at the level of the learner.
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold