“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
More from Aristotle on Philosophy
“It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”
“It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
“A man without regrets cannot be cured.”
“One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.”
“It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit”
“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”