Plato Quotes about Music

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the 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 the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Music, Plato, Soul

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Plato

Music, Wings, Giving

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

Music is a defining element of character.

Plato

Music, Character, Elements

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

Plato

Music, Republic, Art Education

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

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: ...”