Quotes About Love

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

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

You're my star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you.

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.

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.

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

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 asked Socrates what is love... Socrates: Go into the field and get me the most special leaf... Plato returned with no leaf at hand said: I found the most beautiful leaf in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone... Socrates: We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and expecting a better one... NOT KNOWING IT WAS THE BEST AND LAST!!!

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice

The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. –Plato-

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

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