Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to… — Isabel Lucas Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“…I processed that. Stephan was gay. He had told me as much. And she had told me that they were purely platonic.… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Yet “Platonic affection” can only seem “sublimated and idealized to the more experienced.” It was a painful message for Margaret, an unmarried… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I guess from my perspective, puppy love is more of an emotional crush or a platonic affection. So my best advice would… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“So the platonic Year Whirls out new right and wrong, Whirls in the old instead; All men are dancers and their tread… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“...you are the only reason I went out tonight. I wanted to be with you. I always want to be with you.… — Kimberly Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of… — erwin panofsky Copy Share Image
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody… — James Jones Copy Share Image
