Aristotle Quotes About Conformity

• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Happy Life, Long, Effort

• ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

  Aristotle

  Principles, Ethics, Moral

• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Aging, Conformity

• It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Exercise, Opposites

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

• Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Perfect, Soul

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

• The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Happy Life, Effort, Amusement

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

• Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

• The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

• The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

• Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Justice, Decision

  Aristotle (1890). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Tr. with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions: Also, The Poetic of Aristotle, Literally Tr., with a Selection of Notes, an Analysis, and Questions”

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