Action Quote by Aristotle

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty…

— Dallas Willard

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

— Aristotle

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

— Aristotle

“If Perception and Action were the disciplines of the mind and the body, then Will is the discipline of the heart and the soul.”

— Ryan Holiday

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled…

— Aristotle

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen…

— Quintilian

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a…

— Immanuel Kant

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

— Thomas de Quincey