Those who were once us

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”

– Plato, The Symposium

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Soulmates according to Plato

In his dialogue “The Symposium”, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that Continue reading