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.
PLATOMusical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
More Plato Quotes
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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