“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
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The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
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“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
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“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”
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“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
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“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
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“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
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“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other...”
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