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
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
All art is concerned with coming into being.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
We are what we reblog.
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.