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LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - PLATO QUOTES - Coggle Diagram
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - PLATO QUOTES
PHAEDRUS
’Love is a primordial god’
’Love causes…shame at disgraceful behaviour and pride in good behaviour’
PAUSANIAS
’Love is twofold’
‘Common love…attracted to bodies rather than minds’
’Celestial love…affection for what is stronger and more intelligent’
ARISTOPHANES
‘Love draws our original nature back together…heals the split in our nature’
’Love is just the name we give to the desire for and pursuit of wholeness’
AGATHON
‘Love is characterised by a high degree of self-discipline, as well as by fairness’
’Love is himself without equal in attractiveness and in goodness’
SOCRATES
‘The object of love is the permanent possession of goodness for oneself’
’Every human being is both physically and mentally pregnant’
’You start by loving one attractive body…until you finally recognise true beauty’
‘So when irrational desire rules…it is called love’
’Lover love a young man like yourself as wolves love lambs’
’He should never gratify someone in love… but someone who is not in love…sane’
’Some of our greatest blessings come from madness’
’A soul is like… a charioteer and his team of horses’
Soul as ‘immortal’
’Anything divine is good…these qualities are the best source of nourishment and growth for the soul’s wings’
’If the better aspects of their minds win…they live a wonderful harmonious life’
ALCIBIADES
’He’s the only person in the world in whose company I’ve felt…shame’