Platonic Solid/geometric Properties

Famous quotes containing the words platonic, solid, geometric and/or properties:

    “So the Platonic Year
    Whirls out new right and wrong,
    Whirls in the old instead;
    All men are dancers and their tread
    Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    “New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)