Top 1200 Platonic Love Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

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

We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

I guess from my perspective, puppy love is more of an emotional crush or a platonic affection. So my best advice would probably be to be the big dog. If you want something real and lasting, slow down and look more for grown-up love.

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.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Theres different kinds of love, and Id never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love Ive experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that theres this other love out there.

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.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister's, a platonic date.

There's something so great about platonic intimacy.

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

I do believe men and women can share healthy, long-lasting platonic relationships.

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

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

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

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.

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.

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

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

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

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

I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.

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 Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

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.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.