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Philosophy is the highest music.

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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

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....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, whe...more

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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a b...more

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So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul th...more

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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.