Full Idea
We must have feelings at the right times on the right grounds towards the right people for the right motive and in the right way.
Gist of Idea
We must tune our feelings to be right in every way
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1106b18)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.101
A Reaction
And you thought feelings were just whatever comes naturally! We sometimes talk now of 'emotional intellgence', but we should talk more of 'educated emotions'.
Related Idea
Idea 5160 There is a mean of feelings, as in our responses to the good or bad fortune of others [Aristotle]