Aristotle

Aristotle

BioData

• Birth & Date:  384–322 BC (62)
• Place of Birth: Northern Greece
• Legacy: Father of Philosophy
• Interest: Philosophy, Physics, Biology, Rhetoric, Psychology, Music, Zoology, Metaphysics, Logic, Linguistic, Ethics, Politics
• Known for tutoring Alexander the Great

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Aristotle – The Philosopher

 

A friend is a second self.
~ Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know.
~ Aristotle

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
~Aristotle

All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established.
– Aristotle

All art is concerned with coming into being.
– Aristotle

“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
―Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
– Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
– Aristotle

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
~Aristotle

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
– Aristotle

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
– Aristotle

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good fortune.
—Aristotle.

Happiness depends upon ourselves
~ Aristotle

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
– Aristotle

Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their fathers.
—Aristotle.

If happiness is activity in accordance with virtue, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest value.
– Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.
– Aristotle

The end of labour is to gain leisure.
– Aristotle

“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
~Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
~Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~Aristotle

The intention makes the crime.
– Aristotle

The physician heals, Nature makes well.
– Aristotle

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.  Men do not become tyrants so as not to suffer cold.
– Aristotle

The Pythagoreans say the world and all that is in it, is determined by the number three.
– Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produced them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.
– Aristotle

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

Yet it would perhaps be thought to be better, indeed to be our duty, for the sake of maintaining the truth even to destroy what touches us closely, especially as we are philosophers; for, while both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
– Aristotle
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