Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Quotes & Sayings

Yes. Railrunner, we need to activate your ride form. — Miranda Leek

Fear is the greatest enemy of humanity, it paralyses tons and tons of people around the globe. — Euginia Herlihy

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest - I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value - we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct. — Aristotle.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son. — Rod Stewart

But happiness is a difficult thing-it is, as Aristotle posited in The Nicomachean Ethics, an activity, is is about good social behavior, about being a solid citizen. Happiness is about community, intimacy, relationships, rootedness, closeness, family, stability, a sense of place, a feeling of love. And in this country, where people move from state to state and city to city so much, where rootlessness is almost a virtue ("anywhere I hang my hat ... is someone else's home"), where family units regularly implode and leave behind fragments of divorce, where the long loneliness of life finds its antidote not in a hardy, ancient culture (as it would in Europe), not in some blood-deep tribal rites (as it would in the few still-hale Third World nations), but in our vast repository of pop culture, of consumer goods, of cotton candy for all-in this America, happiness is hard. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics — Daniel Goleman

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing. — Tom Petty

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act. — Aristotle.

Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals. — Christina Engela

Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations. — Michelle Phan

She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown — Graham Masterton

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. — Aristotle.

Integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light. — Laozi

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

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — Aristotle.

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that! — Nafisa Joseph

True that life is given,
And received. But truer still:
The single-act of giving
Makes the offerer the beggar, too - — Edith L. Tiempo

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. — Aristotle.

I've never been part of the minority before, never have had to struggle to belong, so I figured I'd milk the experience for all it was worth. Don't they say adversity builds character? — Apol Lejano-Massebieau

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life. — Common

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist. — Linda Sunshine