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
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey… — Plato Copy Share Image
“the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue,” — Plato Copy Share Image
“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not. — Plato Copy Share Image
“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in… — Plato Copy Share Image
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it. — Plato Copy Share Image
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it… — 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
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often… — 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
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether… — Plato Copy Share Image
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato Copy Share Image
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union. — Plato Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. — 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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image