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 young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Most people would rather get than give affection
Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
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.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.