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
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
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.
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.