Quotes and sayings from Aristotle

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, born in Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece in 384 BCE. He is considered one of the greatest intellectual figures of classical antiquity and Western history. Aristotle’s philosophical and scientific system became the framework for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. His intellectual range was vast, covering most of the sciences and many of the arts, including biology, botany, chemistry, ethics, history, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physics, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology. He was the founder of formal logic, devising for it a finished system that for centuries was regarded as the sum of the discipline. Aristotle’s works have had a profound influence on Western thought and culture, and his ideas continue to be studied and debated today.