Plato Quotes, Love Quotes, Needs Quotes

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.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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I would fain grow old learning many things.

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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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