Philosophy is the highest music.
PLATOThe philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
More Plato Quotes
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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.
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