Contemplation Quote by Confucius

“Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet…

— Wu Wei

“Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his…

— Olaf Stapledon

“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world…

— Rudolf Steiner

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the…

— Edward Rothstein

“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.”

— Debasish Mridha

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

— Plato

“What good is music? None, Gage thought, and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Music gives strength to the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be…

— Confucius