„Sme tým, čo robíme. Dokonalosť teda nie je čin, ale zvyk.“
Originál
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Varianta: We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Zdroj: The Story of Philosophy (1926), p. 87. The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7.
Kontext: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'.
Will Durant 10
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„Od jedného konca sveta na druhý koniec všetko robí zvyk.“
„Klin sa vybíja klinom. Zvyk sa prekonáva zvykom.“
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