Plato Quotes About Music
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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Music is a defining element of character.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
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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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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
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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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