Aristotle Body Quotations

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

The soul is the form of the body

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.