I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister's, a platonic date. — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss. — Sophie Irene Loeb Copy Share Image
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. — Philipp Melanchthon Copy Share Image
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I do believe men and women can share healthy, long-lasting platonic relationships. — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps… — Peter Adamson 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
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
“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
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
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 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
Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of… — Philip Kitcher 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
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
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming… — Guillermo del Toro 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
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Um, the relationship between Thor and Sif in this movie is quite platonic. I mean, they're good buddies, they've grown up with… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
“That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree Copy Share Image
Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
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