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 vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
The probable is what usually happens.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.