Aristotle Quotes About Morality

• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  Aristotle

  Music, Passion, Character

• The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, School

• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Preparation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Circles

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

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