Midterm Quotes Flashcards
“If there was only a way to start a city or an army made of lovers & the boys they love! Theirs would be the best possible system of society, for they would hold back from all that is shameful & seek honour in each others eyes”
Phaedrus
“A sense of shame in acting shamefully, and a sense of pride in acting well”
Phaedrus
“Each of us, then is a “matching half” of a human whole”
Aristophanes
“Don’t force whatever is not good to be bad. It is the same with love.”
Socrates
“We desire to possess the good forever; we seek immortality though giving birth in beauty”
Socrates
“Abstinence from all sexual union is better even than marital intercourse performed for the sake of procreating”
Augustine
“Other greek (than Plato)…were materialist (matter is all); Plate saw that God was not corporeal, that perception is not the source of truth, that God is the source of existence. The sensible world is inferior to the eternal.”
Augustine
“Love draws a soul to God as weight draws a body to earth.”
Augustine
“Grant me chastity and continence but not yet”
Augustine
“Love thrives on difficulty, distance, jealousy, insecurity- & gifts, & beauty, & valor!”
Capellanus
“Inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation on the opposite sex”
Capellanus
“Love means in general the consciousness of my unity with another, so that I am not isolated on my own, but gain my self-concouisness only through the renunciation of my independent existence & through knowing myself as a unity of myself with another & the other with me”
Hegel
“Love is a mutual giving & taking… the lover who takes is not thereby made richer than the other; he is enriched indeed, but only so much as the other is. So too the giver does not make himself more poorer; by giving to the other he has at the same time & to the same event enhanced his own treasure”
Hegel
“Love, romantic love, is wanting to form a we with that particular person”
Nozick
“Each person delights in the other and also in giving delights”
Hegel
