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- Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
- That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It…
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
- To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
- A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness…
- Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
- The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
- Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way…
- Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human…
- What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
- . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made…
- Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is…
- ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the…
- ... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
- Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold…
- The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
- What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
- Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and…
- And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The…
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