| According to Platonic philosophy, mathematics is the proper training for understanding the Universe as it is, as opposed to how it appears. |
| The Greek, especially the Platonic, tradition saw the soul and body as utterly distinct and separate entities. |
| All this might point to a tacit disappointment with the cinema as we know it and a yearning for the Platonic ideal we dream it capable of. |
| We stagger round with the Platonic idea that we can love only one other person. |
| I think that Greek Tragedy and the Platonic dialogues are positively riddled with irony. |
| It would not have been difficult for him to find Greek copies of Platonic dialogues at either Carthage or Rome, where he taught for a time. |
