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Looks like the quote was from Will Durant, based on an Aristotle saying. >"Virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions," Aristotle said. The writer Will
by awillimus 5y ago
Looks like the quote was from Will Durant, based on an Aristotle saying.
>"Virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions," Aristotle said. The writer Will Durant interpreted it thusly: "We are what we repeatedly do… therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit."
https://dailystoic.com/we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do/ https://dailystoic.com/we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do/
- q1w2 5y agoI think a more accurate translation of Aristotle's quote is simple, "virtues are actions, not words." It's more about actions speaking louder than words.
- emj 5y agoThere is a distinction here; actions are not by themselves virtuous. Two people can seem to have the same actions/habit but only one of them does it from the heart. Getting back to the quote from Durant; just because you ace the test or have your peers eating from your hand, does not mean you have acheived excellence. What Aristotle talks about in Ethics is not only a habit or actions but also what drives that.