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
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.