Accord Quote by Ernest Sosa

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

— Terry Eagleton

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the…

— Aristotle

“Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good.”

— Herminia Ibarra

“Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all…

— James Joyce

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with…

— Aristotle

“Aristotle wrote in Nicomachean Ethics, “hold that it is by nature that people become good, others that it is by habit, and others that…

— Charles Duhigg

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than…

— Aristotle

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as…

— Sissela Bok

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

— William Godwin

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the…

— Aristotle

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human…

— Aristotle