Platonic

Famous quotes containing the word platonic:

“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all Platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)