Plato Quotes
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.