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
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Well begun is half done.
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Hope is a waking dream.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.