Full Idea
Law is intelligence without appetite.
Gist of Idea
Law is intelligence without appetite
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1287a31)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.226
A Reaction
Neat, but no laws would be needed if there were no appetites. The idea has a nice Kantian feeling to it, though - of rising into the space of pure reason.