Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
PlatoLet him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
PlatoThat which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
PlatoNeither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
Plato