Aristotle, another Great Macedonian

Day 2,280, 09:15 • Published in Greece Greece • by THRAX and RUMELIAN

Aristotle or Plato ideas? .... this is the basis of the philosophy and politics thousands of years until now.
All the famous philosophers and politicians are placing their thoughts and fighting each other for the basic ideas and standards of those two great men...



And you daddy? Asked me my son... its easy.... for me its Aristotle…

The great Macedonian, whose name means "the best purpose" (of course in pure Macedonian language), was born in Macedonia, 384 BCE in the town Stagira, Chalcidice, about 55 km east of modern-day Thessaloniki (for the non Macedonians we have to say that the name means Thessalian Victory and was the name of Alexander’s sister). His father Nicomachus (for the non Macedonians means “victory warrior”) was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon (the “Defender” in pure Macedonian language)

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon. During that time he gave lessons not only to Alexander, but also to two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander.



Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be "a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants"…



My friens, life is easy to understand if you just read carefully his books….

Do it people…

Look to a really small anthology of his famous quotes…

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

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

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

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

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To perceive is to suffer.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“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.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”



o/ to another of the Great Macedonians!

ps: the article is changed its title.... be aware of the fp's...