He was a great figure in Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, biology, metaphysics, mathematics, physics,
botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of Plato who in turn
studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato’s
theory of forms.
Aristotle was a prolific writer and polymath, who radically influenced most areas of knowledge he touched.
He was the father of the field of logic, he was the first to develop a formalized system for reasoning.
Aristotle gave the special prominence to good reasoning combined with his deep belief in the scientific method forms.
(384 - 322 BCE)
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special
business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
~ Aristotle
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
~ Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
~ Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
~ Aristotle
Well begun is half done.
~ Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
~ Aristotle
The law is reason, free from passion.
~ Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
~ Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~ Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
~ Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
~ Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
~ Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~ Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
~ Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
~ Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~ Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
~ Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
~ Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
~ Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
~ Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~ Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
~ Aristotle
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~ Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~ Aristotle
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
~ Aristotle
Nature does nothing in vain.
~ Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
~ Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
~ Aristotle
The Greek philosopher and logician (one who studies logic or reason) Socrates was an important influence
on Plato (427-347 B.C.E. ) and had a major effect on ancient philosophy.
Socrates was famous for his method of argumentation and his works often made as many enemies as admirers within Athens.
Cicero said that "Socrates brought down philosophy from the heavens to the earth."
Socrates appears to have lived the humblest life. He bought the cheapest food and drink, had no shirt or shoes, and
wore the same cloak summer and winter. But this gave him independence to do as he wished, and what he wished was to
help himself and others come to greater knowledge and peace of mind.
(469 B.C.E. - c. 399 B.C.E.)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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