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Aristotle Quotes about Character - Page 2

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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Character, Soul, Theatre

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

Character, Way, Faces

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Character, Angel, Men

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Character, Men, Feelings

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

Character, Mean, Three

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Writing, Character, Giving

"On the Art of Poetry".

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

Character, Vices, Causes

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Philosophical, Character, Mean

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.26, Aeterna Press

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

Character, Men, Differences

"Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1103b,

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Change, Blessed, Character

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

Character, Two, Soul

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

Passion, Learning, Character

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1730, Princeton University Press

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

True Friend, Character, People

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Character, Anxiety, Political

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Character, Government, Democracy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

True Friend, Taken, Character

Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Character, People, Vices

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Character, May, Sovereign

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

Character, Men, Self

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

Education, Character, Mean

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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