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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. — Bertrand Russell

She had platonic all but tattooed on her forehead. — Kelly Moran

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you. — Oscar Wilde

Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried. — Cassandra Clare

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

You'd better have a damn good platonic reason why you're in my sister's apartment."
"Really? I'm devastated that I can't provide you with one. — Suzanne Wright

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Simonides

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

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

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

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...
Leione — Pet Torres

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

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

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

shoulders touching in a way that's only mostly platonic. It's inevitable, she supposes, that God would call her bluff. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

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

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss. — Sophie Irene Loeb

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

Platonic love is platonic nonsense. — Samuel Richardson

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible. — Olivia Wilde

I loved him. In a completely platonic, best friend, would not even go there if you were the last guy on earth, sort of way. — Theresa Smith

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. — Austin O'Malley

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter. — Jostein Gaarder

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers. — Edmund Marlowe

This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie! — Angela Carter

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

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. — Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

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. — Andrew Young

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense. — C.E. Murphy

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

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

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

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

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. — Learned Hand

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. — Deepak Chopra

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast. — Bradley Chicho

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

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