How to Love: Wise (and not so wise) advice from the Great Philosophers (How to Live Minibooks) (Volume 2)

If anyone can teach us about love, it really ought to be the great philosophers. But of course, being a lover of wisdom and a wise lover are two very different things. Just consider these famous philosophical chat-up-lines:

* Are you interested in immortality?
Diotima, a lady who, according to Plato, greatly impressed Socrates

• Do you have your sexual appetites under control? I do.
Kant, his advice to young people generally. And:

• Would you like to share my grapes?
Schopenhauer, who actually used this line (unsuccessfully) to chat up a young lady.

For better or (more likely) for worse, here are some of philosophy’s most celebrated ideas and arguments on love and relationships.