Plato

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

Plato

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Plato

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Plato

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

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Plato

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Plato

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Plato

No man’s nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Plato

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Plato