Quotes by Plato with soul

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

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  • Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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  • It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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  • Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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  • Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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