aristotle Quotes About action Page 2

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.”

Self Action Practice Exercise Ambition Performing Courageous Controlled Self Control Acts Of Courage

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.”

People Action Moving Speech Concern Speakers Attempting Pathos

Author:Aristotle

“This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”

Mean Action Clear

Author:Aristotle

“Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.”

Action Science Nature Natural Depends Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.”

Men Action Lasts Beautiful Lying Answers Wise Highest Excuse Intuition Appeals Sufficient Breasts Inward Beautiful Things Thyself Famous Inspirational

Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.”

Ends Self Action Happiness Found Perfect Ethics Sufficient Our Actions Self Sufficient Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.”

Giving Writing Humans Character Action Form Quality Misery Crafts Reverse Human Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.”

Ifs Action Causes Wonder Happened Air Effects Events Design Tragedy Surprise Accidents Pity Crafts Tragic Imitation Coincidence Cause And Effect

Book:The Poetics of Aristotle

Source: The Poetics of Aristotle

“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.”

States Government Action Political Common Crime Mere Sake Noble Mutual Companionship Prevention

Author:Aristotle

“Happiness is a sort of action.”

Action Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action”

Men Action Tragedy Imitation

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

Action Causes Nature Chance Habit Seven Dues Reasoning Appetite Compulsion

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”

Action Fear Emotion Serious Tragedy Accomplish Pity Imitation Incidents Magnitude Catharsis

Author:Aristotle

“So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.”

States Action Together Political Purpose Lays Sake Noble Association Living Together

Author:Aristotle

“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.”

Action Business Virtue Fine Performances

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.”

Men Way Self Action Player Building Brave Instance Controlled Builder Harps

Author:Aristotle

“. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”

Action Political Existence Mere Sake Noble Companionship

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Character is revealed through action.”

Character Action

Author:Aristotle

“All human happiness and misery take the form of action.”

Humans Action Form Misery Human Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.”

Action Differences Habit Our Actions

Author:Aristotle

“The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

Knows Kind Said Reason Problem Would Be Action Purpose Order Asks Virtue Study Advantage Determine Characteristics Inquiry Our Actions Attainment Conducting

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.”

People Men Mean War Might Action Spirit Revolution Citizens Preserves Tyrants Incapable Spy Mistrust Humbling Eliminating Sowing Decisive Action

Author:Aristotle

“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”

Mean Feelings Action Virtue Missing Vices Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Aristotle: Selections

Source: Aristotle: Selections

“Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

Kind Action Kindness Determine Characteristics

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans Wells Kind Soul States Action Certain Turns Principles Virtue Activity Performances Function Excellence Noble Rational Appropriate Good Man Implying Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.”

Action Fall Passion Virtue Vices Exceed Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.”

Able Action Study Neighbor

Author:Aristotle

“And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

May War Philosophy Seems Action Depends Activity Gains Busy Sake Practicals Arise Leisure Contemplating

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

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