All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

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