Category Plato

Plato says: “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

Plato says: “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

Plato says: “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think…

Plato says: “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

Plato says: “Harmony and grace depend on simplicity… the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.”

Plato says: “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

Plato says: “For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be…

Plato says: “For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.”

Plato says: “Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”, in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.”

Plato says: “Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”