Platonic Quotes

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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular… — Jacques Monod
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… — Edward Abbey
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there. — Alexander Skarsgard
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. — Austin O'Malley
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one… — Thomas Jefferson
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix… — Jean Baudrillard
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.â€”or America. — Isabel Lucas
Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss. — Sophie Irene Loeb
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. — Ambrose Bierce
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and… — Jeremy Brett
I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and… — Shirley MacLaine
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. — Roger Penrose
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may… — Bertrand Russell
She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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