At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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