Plato Love Quotes

#1. One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

Joseph Heller

#2. Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Plato

#3. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Plato

#4. For, observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

Plato

#5. According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

Plato

#6. ... if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Plato

#7. Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

#8. The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

Plato

#9. Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

Plato

#10. There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

Plato

#11. The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Plato

#12. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

#13. No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

Plato

#14. A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Plato

#15. Love is a severe mental disorder.

Plato

#16. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

#17. Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Plato

#18. Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

Plato

#19. Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

Plato

#20. I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

Liz Greene

#21. And so, from such early times human beings have had Love for one another inborn in them -- Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Plato

#22. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Plato

#23. Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

Tom Stoppard

#24. Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Plato

#25. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

#26. He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Plato

#27. Each of us, then, is a token of a human, since we've been sliced like a flatfish and made two out of one. So everyone's always searching for his own token.

Plato

#28. Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

Mary Renault

#29. All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Plato

#30. How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles, - are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.

Plato

#31. Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato

#32. As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Plato

#33. Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.

William T. Vollmann

#34. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Plato

#35. The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Benjamin Disraeli

#36. Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Plato

#37. The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Plato

#38. No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Plato

#39. Love is a grave mental illness.

Plato

#40. Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. Stanley Hall

#41. those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children,

Plato

#42. On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

Plato

#44. Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.

Plato

#45. Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them?people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust,
about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Plato

#46. Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Plato

#47. Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

Bobby Henderson

#48. The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Plato

#49. Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Plato

#50. At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Plato

#51. Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. ... thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Plato

#52. Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Plato

#53. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

#54. Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Plato

#55. A philosopher has the moderate love for wisdom and the courage to act according to wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge about the Good or the right relations between all that exists. Wherein

Plato

#56. Plato also knew clearly, and indicated by allusions in his works, the dogmas of the Trinity, mediation, the incarnation, the Passion and the notions of grace and salvation through love. He knew the essential truth. Namely, that God is good. He is only all-powerful in addition.

Simone Weil

#57. You don't seem to love money too much. And those who haven't made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who [c] haven't.

Plato

#58. Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it.

John Mark Reynolds

#59. The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Plato

#60. For the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Plato

#61. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato

#62. I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

Plato

#63. The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings

Plato

#64. Even the Gods love jokes.

Plato

#65. Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Plato

#66. Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

Richard Rorty

#67. The Gods too love a joke.

Plato

#68. There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

Plato

#69. For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Plato

#70. The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

Elizabeth Kostova

#71. The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

#72. Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

#73. The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Plato

#74. Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Plato

#75. Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Plato

#76. And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment ...

Plato

#77. Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

Plato

#78. No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

#79. Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

Plato

#80. Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts

Sarah Crossan

#81. The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

#82. Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

Stefano Benni

#83. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

#84. You're my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!

Plato

#85. Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

Plato

#86. Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Plato

#87. If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

Steven Pressfield

#88. He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

Plato

#89. Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Plato

#90. Love is a grave mental disease." "Shakespeare?" Kyle shook his head. "Plato.

Tracy Brogan

#91. You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Plato

#92. The prisoner grows to love his chains.

Plato

#93. Love is a serious mental illness

Plato

#94. They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Plato