Nicomachean Ethics Quotes - Page 3

• For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

  Aristotle

  Missing, Wish, Citizens

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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  Artist, Player, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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  People, Evil, Second Best

  Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

  Aristotle

  Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

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• It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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  Men, Class, Looks

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Character

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1852, Princeton University Press

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• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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  Art, Causes, Action

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Good Man

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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  Eye, People, Perception

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