Platonic Quotes

61 Platonic quotes by 54 unique authors

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic… — Guillermo del Toro
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… — Carl Sagan
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Thomas B. Macaulay
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical… — John Walford
Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in… — John Walford
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much… — Alan Bradley
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity… — Jonathan Lethem
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which… — Learned Hand
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. — Gilbert Gottfried
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise.… — Philip Roth
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,… — Neil Gaiman
She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense. — C.E. Murphy
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… — Sylvia Plath
I wouldn’t want you to get in the shower and then pass out or some such. How about if I help you get out of… — Devon Monk
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered… — James Jones
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,… — Jorge Luis Borges
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 at once. So,… — Jack Kerouac
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. — Leo Tolstoy

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