In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.


A Guided Tour of Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (ed. McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 1991) - ISBN: 9780874848953

Aristotle Quotes

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about...

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about...

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about...

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about...