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Aristotle Quotes about Character

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Character, Evil, Choices

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

Character is revealed through action.

Character, Action

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Character, May, Lost

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Character, Choices, Determined

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Inspiration, Character, Emotion

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Character, Personality, Results

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Character, Fool, Wealth

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Character, Should, Young

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.273, Aristotle

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Character, Self, Support

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Motivation, Character, Patriotic

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

Revenge, Anger, Character

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Music, Passion, Character

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

Character, Thoughtful, Thinking

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

Character, Mean, Men

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3615, Modern Library

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Character, Purpose, Virtue

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Character, Meditation, Mind

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Character, Mind, Three

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Character, People, Action

We are what we frequently do.

Character, Personal Growth

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Inspirational, Hate, Character

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1852, Princeton University Press

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Character, Presidential, Carrie

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Character, Sea, Noble

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Children, Character, Teach

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Character, Plot, Action

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Character, Play, Together

Aristotle (2016). “Poetics”, p.22, Aristotle

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