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“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.”

Life Nature Moral Virtue Products Habit Morality Preparation Formation Reception Moral Virtues

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”

Character Results Virtue Habit Permanent Establishment Virtuous Formation

Book:On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

Source: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”

Important Different Feelings Space Break Plans Society Land Habit Travel Speech Important Things Reactions Landscape Village Formation Tourism Habitual Travel And Tourism Foreign Lands

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”

Body Natural Education Habit Machines Organization Artificial Formation

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

“Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.”

Looks Character Helping Christian Spiritual Form Growth Results Our Lives Habit Method Prepared Traditional Spiritual Growth Stem Vitality Formation Spiritual Formation

Book:The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

Source: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.”

Consciousness Habit Conscious Connections Performances Arise Phases Interfere Spoil Formation New Habits

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean