But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it