Character Quote by Confucius

“Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and…

— Martin Luther

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he…

— Confucius

“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can…

— Hermann Hesse

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius”

— Confucius

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

— Plato

“Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.”

— William F. Gladstone

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

“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

“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one…

— Hermann Hesse

“We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we…

— John Calvin