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
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
Nature does nothing in vain.
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.