Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Justice and health are important, but true fulfillment comes from achieving one's deepest desires.
In this quote, Aristotle highlights the significance of justice and health in living a good life. However, he emphasizes that the ultimate pursuit must be the attainment of one's heart's desires, as it is through these desires that individuals find true happiness and satisfaction in life.
Themes
JusticeHealthDesireHappinessFulfillment
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a discussion about the importance of pursuing one's dreams during a motivational talk.
More from Aristotle
All quotes βThose who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
AristotleRead
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
AristotleRead
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleRead
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
AristotleRead
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
AristotleRead
Similar quotes
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Benjamin BannekerRead
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Oscar WildeRead
Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.
Thomas KingRead
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
George Bernard ShawRead
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
Miyamoto MusashiRead
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
Benjamin FranklinRead