... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.