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Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an answer to his anxiety, his disquietude, his "premonitions." The world would remain for him, "in the light" of our "positive" sciences, what it was - a dark and sorrowful subterranean region - and we would seem to him like chained prisoners. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality." [1] In brief, Aristotle would bless our knowledge while Plato would curse it.


Lev Shestov


#change

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


J.K. Rowling


#interview #nudge #platonic #radio #wink

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...


Harold Brodkey


#gay #love #old #platonic-love #relationship

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


#platonic #platonic-love #tragedy #love

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


Thomas Hardy


#love

They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary.


Lucian of Samosata


#satire #love

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

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


#assume #friendship #i #i think #instantly

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


Thomas B. Macaulay


#exalt #god #into #man #philosophy

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






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