platonic🔊

Neither sexual nor romantic in nature.

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The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture

Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.

💬 Quotations

Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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