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 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.
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
We are what we reblog.
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind