"The soul is the form of the body"

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Source : Michael Flynn (2006). “Eifelheim”, p.171, Macmillan

Aristotle

#Soul Quotes #Body Quotes #Form Quotes

“Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.”
“In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.”
“Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.”
“I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.”
“I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.”
“If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”

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