Quotes About Harmony

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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

Philosophy is the highest music.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity

Is there a perfect world?

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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.

On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

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

For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.

Beauty is the splendor of truth. (Die Schönheit ist der Glanz der Wahrheit)

For this, he said, is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

I would rather . . . that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.

Eros guides us to Logos.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

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, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes

And he who mingles music with gymnastic in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings. You are quite right, Socrates. And such a presiding genius will be always required in our State if the government is to last. Yes

And the love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

And as they have nothing but their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints will have no existence among them; they will be delivered from all those quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. Of course they will. Neither