I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
