Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of… — Plato Copy Share Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it… — Plato Copy Share Image
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot… — Plato Copy Share Image
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of… — Plato Copy Share Image
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace… — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any… — Plato Copy Share Image
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth… — Plato Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves… — Plato Copy Share Image
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst… — Plato Copy Share Image
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt… — Plato Copy Share Image
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato Copy Share Image
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function… — Plato Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes. — Plato Copy Share Image
“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness… — Plato Copy Share Image
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of… — Plato Copy Share Image
... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
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