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)
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
~ Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
~ Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~ Aristotle
He who hath many friends hath none.
~ Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~ Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to
refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
~ 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
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
~ Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
~ Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
~ Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
~ Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
~ Aristotle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be
best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
~ Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
~ Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
~ Aristotle
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer
more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
~ Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these
only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~ Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the
state of mind which creates revolutions.
~ Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
~ Aristotle
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to
the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
~ Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
~ Aristotle
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but
also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something,
by developing before us the powers of thought.
~ Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these
wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
~ Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
~ Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle
Known to have one of the greatest influences on modern Western thought, and to have taught his ways to Aristotle in the Academy, Plato is considered one of the greatest minds and logical rationalists in world history. While his works often border mysticism, his continual pursuit of ethical answers based on logical processes still influences law, politics, education, ethics, philosophy, and psychology even today.
Not much is known about his childhood and young days but he was of some higher social class. He wrote poetry and plays and had access to the best libraries and teachers available in his day. He knew much about the outside world, mainly through reading and intimate discussions with others. He is considered to be one of the earliest philosophers.
(428 BC - 347 BC)
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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