Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
PlatoThere 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.
PlatoExperience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
PlatoThe penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Plato