Aristotle:
(Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs)
(Stageira, 384 BC – Chalkis, 322 BC).
Greek philosopher and scholar who, with Socrates and Plato, is considered one of the most influential classical philosophers in the Western tradition. He was a member of Plato’s philosophical Akademeia, and his influence is therefore present in Aristotle’s work, but the philosophical movement represented by Aristotle, Aristotelianism, differs markedly from Platonism, Plato’s philosophical teaching. His teacher was Plato, but Aristotle founded or significantly influenced numerous disciplines, including philosophy of science, natural philosophy, logic, biology, medicine, physics , ethics , political theory and poetry theory .
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.
it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Music serves for diversion, for education, for the stimulation of mind and heart, and for the liberation of the soul from the passions.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear a truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We cannot change the wind, but we can set the sails differently.
And therefore justice is often thought to be the greatest of virtues, and ‘neither evening nor morning star’ is so wonderful; and proverbially ‘in justice is every virtue comprehended’.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
There is only one way to avoid criticism…do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
True friendship is love for the other, for the sake of the other.
The only thing you achieve with lying is not being believed when you tell the truth.
Attributed to Aristotle: Traditionally, this wisdom is attributed to the great Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC). It fits well within his virtue ethics, in which honesty and truthfulness are important virtues. Source: Diogenes Laërtius: The saying cannot be found in the preserved direct writings of Aristotle himself. We know the statement primarily through Diogenes Laërtius (3rd century AD) and his monumental work “Lives and Teachings of Famous Philosophers”. Uncertainty: Diogenes Laërtius was a biographer who wrote centuries ‘after’ the facts. He collected anecdotes, sayings, and summaries. It is therefore very likely that this quote is a ‘paraphrase’, a summary, or even a piece of folk wisdom attributed to Aristotle, rather than his literal words. Conclusion: Although it is doubtful whether Aristotle uttered this exact sentence, the saying remains a powerful and valuable summary of ancient philosophical thoughts on the value of truth and the destructive nature of falsehood.
Doing a good deed is easy; developing the habit of doing it all the time is not.
You need a bit of luck to be happy.
Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
There are three types of friendship in life:
Love each other for a reason – Friends for a season – Friends for life. ❤️
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Man is a social animal, he is not made to live alone.
If you know what is right, there is almost nothing else you can do.
