We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.