Platonic Quotes

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

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Individual, Concrete

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Philosophy, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• 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

  Philosophy, Men, Should

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• 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

  Connections, Intense, Feels

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

  C.E. Murphy

  Body

  C.E. Murphy (2009). “Walking Dead”, p.9, Harlequin

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• 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

  Tragedy, Needs, Platonic Love

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Dating, Want, Naked

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• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  Austin O'Malley

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Two

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• 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 which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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

  Darin Strauss

  Sibling, Distance, Passion

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Platonic Love, Before I Met You, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Mother, Taken, Way

  "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her". www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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• 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. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

  Philip Roth

  Love, Fall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jan 22, 2017

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• 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.—or America.

  Isabel Lucas

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dov Davidoff

  Europe, Different, Levels

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• But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

  Roger Penrose

  Beauty, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

  Samuel Richardson

  Love, Nonsense, Love Is

  Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1801). “Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded [by S. Richardson]. [Another]”, p.200

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• Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

  Pam Brown

  Uplifting, Dream, Grief

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• 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 waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Pythagorean Theorem, Rights

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.32, Vintage

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

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• 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 that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

  John D. Barrow

  God, Spiritual, Littles

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• 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 women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Men, People, Single Life

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• 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 Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

  Jeremy Brett

  Men, Lovely, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.

  James Jones

  Love Life, Men, People

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• The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Confused, Able, Kind

  "Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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