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
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.