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
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
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.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind
Talent is culture with insolence.
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.