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
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.
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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man