Music Quotes by Plato

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

— Plato

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.

— Plato

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”

— Plato

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

— Plato

“Yes, if he is to have true music in him.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

— Plato

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

— Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

— Plato

“let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.”

— Plato

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

— Plato

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

— Plato

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

— Plato

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

— Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument…

— Plato

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change…

— Plato

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any…

— Plato

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are…

— Plato

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety…

— Plato

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always…

— Plato

“isn’t this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost…

— Plato

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and…

— Plato

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm…

— Plato

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life…

— Plato

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

— Plato

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of…

— Plato

“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described,…

— Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe.

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of…

— Plato

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace…

— Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are…

— Plato

“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped…

— Plato