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Music is Quotes by Plato

8 Music is quotes by Plato

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Plato’s thoughts on music arrive in eight concise reflections, each hinting at his philosophical lens. The snippets provide a glimpse into how the ancient thinker linked sound to order, emotion, and the soul—enough to spark curiosity without overwhelming you.

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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic…

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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and…

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Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

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Music is a defining element of character.

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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &…

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is…

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of…

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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…

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“He was a wise man who invented God.”

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For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

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“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

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Geometry existed before creation.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…

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