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
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.