#plato

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. ↗

— Edgar Jepson

#except #found #i #know #love

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#appropriate #aristotle #death #death penalty #i

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. ↗

— George Santayana

#naught #plato #thought

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#future #philosophy #plato #religion

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

#connection #feel #go #i #i feel

My cough is much worse at night and often prevents me from sleeping. It is not so much the daytime tiredness that I resent, but the inability to proceed uninter- rupted with my dreams, to run and play with my fancies, and, at last, in the early hours of the morning, to be visited with visions like a holy madman. The dreamer is like a Delian diver, fishing for pearls from the depths of our inner sea of knowledge; and I must have solved, or rather resolved, many more problems in my sleep than in my conscious hours. ↗

— Neel Burton

#dreams #philosophy #plato #unconscious #dreams

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance. ↗

— Plato

#light #plato #republic #soul #life

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. ↗

— Plato

#plato #symposium #love

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. ↗

— David Levithan

#gay #life #love #platonic-love #relationships

My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#phiosophy #plato #r-alan-woods #worldviews #r-alan-woods