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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“…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
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“What was that? Valentine's Day? Her heart gave a little skip at the thought, she had never spent it in a romantic… — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
“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
“...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
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
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
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
