Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
PlatoNothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
PlatoThe god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
PlatoAs there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
Plato