Phaedrus
Plato's single most concentrated treatment of love, beauty, soul, rhetoric, and writing.
“Every soul is immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal.”
Why It Matters
Plato's single most concentrated treatment of love, beauty, soul, rhetoric, and writing. The chariot myth and the Great Speech are foundational images for Western philosophy and theology. The closing critique of writing has been read for two and a half millennia — most influentially by Derrida, whose Plato's Pharmacy (1968) is a book-length commentary on it.
The 
Take
Personal reviewClassic annoying Socrates making great points about the importance of irrational desire, truth, and knowing your audience
Notable Quotes
“The soul through all her being is immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal.”
“You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding.”