Quotes

Actions of Lust are wrong actions done with pleasure, Wrong actions done with pleasure are more justly objects of wrath, Such as are more justly objects of wrath are more unjust, Actions of Lust are more unjust.

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

The aim of it is the acquisition and propagation of a certain kind of knowledge (science), but this knowledge and the thinking which brings it about are subsidiary to a practical end.

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

"For in all the habits which we have expressly mentioned, as likewise in all the others, there is, so to speak, a mark with his eye fixed on which the man who has Reason tightens or slacks his rope; and there is a certain limit of those mean states which we say are in accordance with Right Reason, and lie between excess on the one hand and defect on the other."

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

"Are we then to break with him instantly? not in all cases; only where our friends are incurably depraved; when there is a chance of amendment we are bound to aid in repairing the moral character of our friends even more than their substance."

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

Because he is destitute of these minor springs of action, which are intended to supply the defects of the higher principle.

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

The capital defect in Aristotle’s eyes, who being eminently practical, could not like a theory which not only did not necessarily lead to action, but had a tendency to discourage it by enabling unreal men to talk finely.

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

The cases of faulty action will be, either when the Machinery is perfect but wrongly directed, as in the case of a deliberate crime, or when the direction given by the Reason is right but the Will does not move in accordance with that direction.

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics

"A certain degree of fear is necessary to the formation of true courage."

Aristotleアリストテレス · Nicomachean Ethics