Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. — Plato Copy Share Image
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil. — Plato Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
“love,' she said, 'may be described generally as the love of the everlasting possession of the good?” — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas. — Plato Copy Share Image
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. — Plato Copy Share Image
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a… — Plato Copy Share Image
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a… — Plato Copy Share Image
“According to Greek mythology, humans were orginally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I was the first man to fall in love with you, son of Clinias, and now that the others have stopped pursuing… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato Copy Share Image
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share