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

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.