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
Greece

Quote

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

Quotes about music:

Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols

Music before all else.”
Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique

music

Architecture in general is frozen music.”
Friedrich von Schelling

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo

music

If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

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Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

All about soul...

Quotes about education:

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.”
William Butler Yeats

education

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

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.”
Edward Gibbon

education

Education is another sun to those who are educated.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.”
Friedrich von Schelling

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Plato also said...

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.”
Plato - Symposium

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
Plato

Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.”
Plato - Republic

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.”
Plato - Apology of Socrates

Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

The good is the beautiful.”
Plato

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