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

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.