To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
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.
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God... and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented... Jay Gatsby... and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Por.
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.
Not much we weigh
Platonic friends.
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