Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
PLATOThose who don’t know must learn from those who do.
More Plato Quotes
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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