Quote of Plato - Music is the movement of sound...
Biography - Plato:
Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
See also...
Quotes about music:
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Quotes about education:
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Quotes for: movement
Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
Plato also said...
The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
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