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
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Character is revealed through action.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
We become just by the practice of just actions.
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
A man is the origin of his action.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Happiness is a sort of action.
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.