Category Aristotle

Aristotle says:  “Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action,

Aristotle says:  “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

Aristotle says:  “Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.”

Aristotle says:  “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

Aristotle says:  “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,…

Aristotle says:  “Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

Aristotle says:  “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

Aristotle says:  “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that…

Aristotle says:  “And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”

Aristotle says:  “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”