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The Nicomachean Ethics Quotes Showing 1-30 of 225. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”. ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics. tags: depression , happiness , life , summer. 634 likes.
Aristotle. Happiness, Self, Perfect. If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best.
Ethics deals with the vagaries of human life and must remain flexible enough to account for the great deal of variety and possibility. Furthermore, Aristotle tells us that virtue cannot be taught in a classroom but can be learned only through constant practice until it becomes habitual.
May 1, 2001 · Aristotle wrote two ethical treatises: the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics. He does not himself use either of these titles, although in the Politics (1295a36) he refers back to one of them—probably the Eudemian Ethics —as “ ta êthika ”—his writings about character.
Jun 10, 2019 · Courtesy of translator Giles Laurén, author of "The Stoic's Bible," here is a list of 30 Aristotle quotations from his "Nicomachean Ethics." Many of these may seem like noble goals to live by. They may make you think twice, especially if you don't consider yourself a philosopher, but simply want age-tested ideas on how to live a better life.
Quotations from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Trans. by Terence Irwin, Hackett Publishing Co., 1985) 1. “Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every action and decision, seems to aim at some good; hence the good has been well described as that at which everything aims.” NE 1094a1 2.
