Anscombe, Elizabeth

"We cannot live well by following the crowd; we must think for ourselves."

"The greatest human achievement is not material, but moral and spiritual."

"We are responsible to speak the truth, even when it is difficult."

"The human person has an inherent dignity that cannot be bought or sold."

"We must learn to distinguish between what we want and what is good."

"The pursuit of truth is never complete, but always rewarding."

"The distinction between the mental and physical is not ultimately real; human action involves both inseparably."

"To understand virtue, one must understand what it means to act well in concrete circumstances."

"Language games show us how meaning is embedded in human practices and forms of life."

"Intention is not merely a mental state; it is revealed through our actions and behavior."

"The concept of duty without understanding human flourishing is hollow."

"Modern ethics has abandoned the notion of human telos to its great detriment."

"One cannot separate the knower from the known in moral understanding."

"To act is to exercise practical wisdom, which cannot be reduced to rules."

"The good life is not achieved through abstract principles but through habituation."

"We must recover the Aristotelian understanding of virtue as excellence of character."

"Language misleads us when we forget its ordinary uses and functions."

"The will is not separate from understanding; they work together in action."

"To understand human beings, we must examine how they actually live and speak."

"Morality is not invented but discovered through careful attention to human nature."

"The reduction of all value to preference or utility impoverishes moral thought."

"Action reveals character in ways that words alone cannot."

"We have forgotten that virtue is a habit, not a theory."

"The concept of mental events without physical embodiment is incoherent."

"Understanding requires us to abandon certain modern philosophical prejudices."

"Human acts are intelligible only within a framework of purposes and meanings."

"The good cannot be defined in purely subjective or relative terms."

"We must learn to think practically, not merely theoretically, about how to live."

"Virtue ethics teaches us that character matters more than consequences alone."

"The lived world is prior to any abstract theoretical description of it."