Full Idea
What desires the form is matter, as the female the male, and the ugly the beautiful.
Gist of Idea
Matter desires form, as female desires male, and ugliness desires beauty
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 192a22)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.235
A Reaction
Wow! This is a very active view of matter. The drive in nature (the 'conatus' in Spinoza) can be discerned in all sorts of levels. It is Nietzsche's will to power. It seems to be the opposite of entropy.