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
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
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. — Austin O'Malley 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
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young 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
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
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt 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
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats 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
There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when,… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
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