#plato

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts. ↗

— Russell Brand

#plato #platonic #russell-brand #nature

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. ↗

— Plato

#plato #symposium #love

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#came #comedies #done #enough #guys

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#except #guy #instead #platoon #plus

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battlefield #job #leading #lieutenant #most

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#brilliant #conclude #evidence #history #lot

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#each #every #himself #individual #lacks

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beginning #believe #came #definite #end

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#come #either #heavy #i #labor