Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Interpretation
Learning requires effort and often involves struggle.
Aristotle's quote emphasizes that true learning is not easy or carefree; it often comes with challenges and discomfort. This pain is an essential part of the educational process, as overcoming difficulties leads to deeper understanding and personal growth.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to students about the challenges of studying.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
There is no education like adversity.
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