The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination. — Plato Copy Share Image
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — 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
Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety… — 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
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — 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
“isn’t this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm… — 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
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the… — Plato Copy Share Image
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are… — 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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