Plato Soul Quotations

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

No soul willfully does wrong.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.