Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATOMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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