40 quotes found
“Justice is useful when money is useless.”
“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
“What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.”
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”
“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”
“The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”
“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.”
“....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed [] confronts fortune with stead...”
“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
“Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.”
“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to th...”
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“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.”
“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 man wh...”
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not h...”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest a...”
“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sig...”
“But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.”
“Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion o...”
