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Plato Quotes about Inspiration

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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Plato
Inspiration, Can Do

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato
Plato, Philosophical, Inspiration
Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

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Inspiration, Sadness, Order

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Plato
Confused, Inspiration, Mean

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

Plato
Inspiration, Men, Blessing

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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Inspiration, Understanding, Talent
Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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