Platonic Ideal Quotes

#1. My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

Christopher Buckley

#2. I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Andrew Young

#3. Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

Neil Gaiman

#4. It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams and less time mucking about with triangles.

Gideon Defoe

#5. Regardfulness is the minimum expression of decency.

Eraldo Banovac

#6. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary

#7. Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Pam Brown

#8. I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft

#9. Bitterness is a bitter distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

Sammy Hagar

#11. And my little sister died when she was 16.

Jeremy London

#12. The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests.

George Santayana

#13. What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

Edward Abbey

#14. The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.

Lao-Tzu

#15. I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.

Edmund Marlowe