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«Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces»
Author: Austin O'Malley | About: Friendship | Keywords: genuine, homely, platonic, Show Me
«Platonic love is love from the neck up.»
Author: Thyra Samter Winslow | About: Love | Keywords: neck, necked, necking, platonic, Platonic love, The Necks
«The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, fabrication, philosophers, platonic, Pythagorean, The Christian, trinity
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Philosophy, Spirit | Keywords: Aquinas, philosophic, platonic, set out, Socrates, The Argument
«The truth was that Jay Gatsby?sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer) | Keywords: conception, jay, Jay Gatsby, platonic, sprang
«His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer) | Keywords: conception, farm, His father, jay, Jay Gatsby, Long Island, platonic, shiftless, Son of God, sprang, spring beauty, The Service, unsuccessful
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