Definition of Disposition

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Disposition

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

Mood; humor.

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Disposition Quotations

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke

Disposition Translations

disposition in Dutch is beschikking
disposition in German is Anordnung {f}, Verwendung, Einteilung

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