#platonic

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#cast #craft #fades #mine #pink

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are beginning to demand that Marriage shall mean Friendship as well as Passion; that a comrade-like Equality shall be included in the word Love; and it is recognised that from the one extreme of a 'Platonic' friendship (generally between persons of the same sex) up to the other extreme of passionate love (generally between persons of opposite sex) no hard and fast line can at any point be drawn effectively separating the different kinds of attachment. We know, in fact, of Friendships so romantic in sentiment that they verge into love; we know of Loves so intellectual and spiritual that they hardly dwell in the sphere of Passion. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#friendship #gender-equality #love #marriage #men

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#faces #friendship #genuine #homely #i

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#beauty #i #i think #issue #morality

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

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

— Thomas Hardy

#love

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'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

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms—a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#homosexuality #love #platonic-love #sex #love