Plato Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

• Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

  Plato

  Music, Dance, Secret Places

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

  Plato

  Music, Republic, Art Education

• Philosophy is the highest music.

  Plato

  Music, Wisdom, Plato

  Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

• Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

  Plato

  Music, Hands, Grace

  Plato, D. J. Allan (1957). “Republic: ...”

• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Wings, Giving

• Music is a defining element of character.

  Plato

  Music, Character, Elements

• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

  Plato

  Music, Law, Innovation

• For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Political

• Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

  Plato

  Music, Education, Plato

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.64

• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

  Plato

  Music, Simple, Simplicity

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

• The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

  Plato

  Music, Beautiful, Affair

  Plato, Thomas Taylor, Floyer Sydenham (1984). “The Works of Plato”, Facsimiles-Garl

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