choice Quotes

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it... ...

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain... ...

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

True friends are families which you can select.

"The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful."

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

"Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not."

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

"For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing."

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.