#plato

For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #platonic-love #religion #love

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

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. ↗

— Plato

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The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. ↗

— Libby Houston

#base #emotions #land #left #plato

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. ↗

— Albert Claude

#dimensions #einstein #faiths #new #newton

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. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

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

— Gilbert Gottfried

#even #find #i #kind #less

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. ↗

— Stefano Benni

#humor #love #plato #humor

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. ↗

— Socrates

#plato #inspirational

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life