Habit
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
custom · habit · ethos · habits · habits are overpowering · habituation · practice · العادات · العادات قاهرة
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
ʻĀdah, the acquired disposition whose private formation determines public exposure.
whoever accustoms himself to something in his secret and in his solitudes, it exposes him in his public life before the assembly.
Nicomachean Ethics
Repeated practice or custom (ethos) that produces and shapes moral dispositions.
whereas moral or ethical virtue is the product of habit (ethos), and has indeed derived its name, with a slight variation of form, from that word.
Again, the actions from or through which any virtue is produced are the same as those through which it also is destroyed—just as is the case with skill in the arts, for both the good harpers and the bad ones are produced by harping, and similarly with builders and all the other craftsmen:
It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from childhood in one set of habits or another;
Tusculan Disputations
The force of repeated practice and training that enables endurance of pain, illustrated by Spartan boys, athletes, hunters, and gladiators.
— But thus far I am speaking of the habit of practice, not yet of reason and wisdom.
So much do practice, training, and habit avail.
Shall custom avail, and reason not avail?
On Tranquillity of Mind
The force of long familiarity and repetition, shown both as dangerous in fixing bad tendencies and beneficial in softening hardship.
But my fear is that habit, which lends things their constancy, may fix this fault in me the more deeply.
that, knowing into what hardships we are born, she devised habit as the softener of calamities, quickly bringing the gravest of them into familiarity.
Reflect that men in fetters at first bear ill the burdens and the shackles on their legs;