Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Book 1 Quotes

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Aristotle nicomachean ethics book 1 quotes. Important quotes from book i in nicomachean ethics. 20 of the best book quotes from nicomachean ethics 1 so then happiness is manifestly something focal and self sufficient being the end of all things which are and may be done person. Aristotle reverences study but he thinks the student needs to use what they have learned and apply it.

No one is only a scholar people are family members friends and citizens too. Suggestions use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Happiness then is found to be something perfect and self sufficient being the end to which our actions are directed page 15 1097b lines 20 2.

Happiness reasons real purpose 2. Similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. References are to aristotle the nicomachean ethics trans.

The nicomachean ethics quotes showing 1 30 of 171 one swallow does not make a summer neither does one fine day. Book 1 chapter vii in which aristotle is explaining that the ultimate end or object of human life must be something that is in itself.