13. Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. He was born in the Macedonanian town of Stagira in 384 BC. His father, Nicomashus was a phycist who died when Aristotle was young. In 367 BC, when he was seventeen, his uncle sent him to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. There he remained, first as a pupil and then as an asssociate for next twenty Years.
      Alexander was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the great. He wrote on many subjects including Physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, politics, government, ethics, Biology and Zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important personality in Western philosophy. He was the first to creat a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and meta physics.

                    He was one of the best personalities the world has ever produced. Some famous quotes of Aristotle are :

1.   A friend is a second self.
2.  All paid jobs absorb and degrade mind.
3.  Dignity consists not in possesing honours , but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
4.  Education is the best provision to our old age.

                   Aristotle had a profond influence on the history of philosophy. He died on 322 BC in Euboea.

If you want to know more about him , see :
LIFE OF ARISTOTLE