Platonic Quotes

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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

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.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

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 phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

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.

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 is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

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 day in June?

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

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 the human condition.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

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 I assuredly do not.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

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 lead.

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.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.

Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.

I love you not because you're beautiful, but its through You that I discover more of myself!