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Thought by itself however moves nothing, but only thought directed to an end, and dealing
with action. This indeed is the moving cause of productive activity1 also, since he who makes some thing always has some
further end in view: the act of making is not an end in itself, it is only a means, and
belongs to something else. Whereas a thing done is an end in itself: since doing well
(welfare2) is the End, and it is at this that desire aims.
Hence Choice may be called either thought related to desire or desire related to thought;
and man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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