Plato's symposium

Plato on soulmates, "The Symposium"

Plato's Symposium

112 quotes from The Symposium: ‘According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing...

The book Plato’s Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete, Plato is published by University of Chicago Press.

Plato's 'The Symposium.' I really need to read this book.

What are the anima and the animagus, and why should you care?

Harriet Lee Merrion is an illus­tra­tor based in Bris­tol, UK. Her illustrations have a thoughtful, hand-made feel, capturing dilemmas of the body and mind in sparing lineart. Her illustrative interpretation of a Susan Sontag quote is a beautiful reminder of the strangeness of this world – “Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad […]

Plato quote about love from Symposium: “And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one another.”

Twin flames are one soul split into 2, deemed to search forever until they find their other half. Their origins are found in Greek mythology