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 man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
Either a beast or a god.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.