Plato's Symposium

A page created for my Humanities creative project, which contains thoughts from Plato's work on love.

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Let him alone, said my informant; he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear; do not therefore disturb him.

Well, if you think so, I will leave him, said Agathon. And then, turning to the servants, he added, “Let us have supper…

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Socrates was the "weird" kid who observes and thinks, instead of simply acting.

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We should always think of others as souls first, then bodies. (183E)

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"Music is therefore simply the science of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."

Symposium, Plato, 187C

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Plato’s Symposium by ~Shira-chan

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Not quite accurate, but so adorable!

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"Love moves us to mildness, removes from us wildness. He is the giver of kindness, never of meanness...In pain, in fear, in desire, or speech, Love is our best guide and guard; he is our comrade and our savior."

Plato's Symposium, 197D-197E

It's amazing how many people use love as an excuse to hurt others. This speaks of love as it should be.

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Whenever you say, I desire what I already have, ask yourself whether you don’t mean this: I want the things I have now to be mine in the future as well.

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Plato, The Symposium (via agloriouspurpose)

200D

This is beautiful.

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Symposium, Plato, 201C

Where's the ice for that burn?

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Diotima Questions Socrates

Diotima: Watch your tongue! Do you really think that, if a thing is not beautiful, it has to be ugly?

Socrates: I certainly do.

Diotima: And if a thing's not wise, it's ignorant? Or haven't you found out yet that there's something in between wisdom and ignorance?

Socrates: What's that?

Diotima: It's judging things correctly without being able to give a reason.

[theunderliner]

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 as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from 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. This, my dear Socrates,’ said the stranger of Mantineia, ‘is that life above all others which man should live.

Plato, Symposium, Project Gutenberg

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211C-211D

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Go home, Alcibiades. You’re drunk.

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Plato's Symposium, 212E

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He is unique; he is like no one else in the past and no one in the present — this is by far the most amazing thing about him…There is a parallel for everyone — everyone else, that is. But this man here is so bizarre, his ways and his ideas are so unusual, that, search as you might, you’ll never find anyone else, alive or dead, who’s even remotely like him. The best you can do is not to compare him to anything human.

Plato, Symposium (The Speech of Alcibiades)

221C-221D

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"Aristodemus couldn't remember exactly what they were saying...but the main point was that Socrates was trying to prove to them that authors should be able to write both comedy and tragedy: the skillful tragic dramatist should also be a comic poet."

Symposium, Plato, 223D