Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.Plato
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.Plato
The man who has been educated by Love wanders about by night and day, trying to explain the things of beauty.Plato
... For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet.Plato
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.Plato
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
Love is of immortality.Plato
Isn’t it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.Plato
In Heaven, there are two kinds of love, which are named after their respective gods: the desire of the body, which is the likeness of the many and of brute animals--this is named from the god who inspires it, 'Common' love. But the desire of the soul which takes us by a harder and steeper path to the same feast of ambrosia, is called 'divine' love.Plato
If it is anywhere that our salvation can be found, it will be in love.Plato