Aristotle Choices Quotations

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue;

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.