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