Plato on love
Plato (c. 428/427–348/347 BCE) approaches love within Platonism. Plato’s theory of Forms holds that changing sensibles participate in eternal, intelligible paradigms—Justice, Beauty, Equality—crowned by the Form of the Good. Knowledge differs from mere opinion by grasping these stable realities through dialectic and recollection. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets love most directly—useful for searches such as “plato quotes on love.”
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Start with the shortest passage, then compare tone across sources. Return to the Plato thinker page for biography and to the love theme for other voices on the same question.
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What did Plato say about love?
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