philosophy and love

What are they?

From one of my "Love and Friendship"-readings. Quotes and comments from and on Plato's Symposium.


[...] philosophy is more than logical analyses and reasoned arguments. It is an impassioned yearning for greater knowledge and understanding.


The intermediary nature of love also explains its relation with philosophy. Philosophy, like love, moves between ignorance and knowledge, and is a never-ending passionate pursuit of greater insight. [...] ´Love is a philosopher and a philosophy. Philosophy is not a formal learning, fixed and rigid, abstracted from all feeling. It is a quest for love, love for beauty, love of wisdom, which is one of the most beautiful things.´ Neither love nor philosophy has attained the beautiful and good. Both are bare-foot, down-and-out vagabonds. Both are curious, fascinated and infatuated with their quest.

Reading in green shadow; the library courtyard.