Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

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

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.