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Plato Quotes about Love

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love, Plato, Romance

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Love, Wisdom, Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Love, Inspirational, Education

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.

Love, Men, Enemy

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.142, Catholic Way Publishing

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.

Love, Romantic, Song

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Love, Darkness, Walks

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Love, Plato, Greatness

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

Love, Beautiful, Education

Even the gods love jokes.

Love, Funny Inspirational, Laughter

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Love, Inspirational, Darkness

Plato (2012). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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

Love, Doe, Return

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.54

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.

Love, Blessed, Names

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Love, Wedding Day, Pursuit

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, Men, Two

Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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

Love, Men, Passionate

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

Love, Marriage, Wise

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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.

Love, Men, Doe

Plato (2007). “The Republic”, p.292, Penguin UK

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

Love, Plato, Passion

Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.3

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.

Love, Needs, Hunger And Thirst

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.

Love, Freedom, Inspire

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.

Love, Money, War

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Love, Valentines Day, Art

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Love, Children, Plato

Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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