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 angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.