Platonist Quotes

#1. As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Abraham Robinson

#2. You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

Alan Lightman

#3. It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

Andreas Katsulas

#4. Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

Philip J. Davis

#5. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.

Anonymous

#6. It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Ray Rice

#7. Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Plato

#8. Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ...

Roberto Bolano

#9. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#10. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Gilbert Ryle

#11. Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Mason Cooley

#12. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

Lord Byron

#13. Just because you can speak louder than me does not make you more right!

Mark W. Boyer

#14. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Charles A.E. Goodhart