Quotes About Harmony

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.

isn't this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost part of the soul and most vigorously lay hold of it in bringing grace with them; and they make a man graceful if he is correctly reared, if not, the opposite.

In my opinion it's preferable for me to be a musician with an out-of-tune lyre or a choir-leader with a cacophonous choir, and it's preferable for almost everyone in the world to find my beliefs misguided and wrong, rather than for just one person - me - to contradict and clash with myself.

Gymnastic as well as music should begin in early years; the training in it should be careful and should continue through life. Now my belief is,—and this is a matter upon which I should like to have your opinion in confirmation of my own, but my own belief is,—not that the good body by any bodily excellence improves the soul, but, on the contrary, that the good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible. What do you say? Yes, I agree. Then

Yes, if he is to have true music in him.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, providing only for an improved religion and morality, and more simplicity in music and gymnastic, a manlier strain of poetry, and greater harmony of the individual and the State.

And so, from such early times human beings have had Love for one another inborn in them -- Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Friends possess everything in common.

Son, pues, estos dos principios los que, en mi opi­nión, podríamos considerar como causas de que la divi­nidad haya otorgado a los hombres otras dos artes, la música y la gimnástica, no para el alma y el cuerpo, ex­cepto de una manera secundaria, sino para la fogosidad y filosofía respectivamente, con el fin de que estos princi­pios lleguen, mediante tensiones o relajaciones, al punto necesario de mutua armonía.

la melo­día se compone de tres elementos, que son letra, armonía y ritmo.

Por consiguiente, el que mejor sepa combinar gim­nástica y música y aplicarlas a su alma con arreglo a la más justa proporción, ése será el hombre a quien poda­mos considerar como el más perfecto y armonioso músico con mucha más razón que a quien no hace otra cosa que armonizar entre sí las cuerdas de un instru­mento.

La mayoría de la gente no se ha dado cuenta de que no sabe lo que son realmente las cosas. Sin embargo, y como si lo supieran, no se ponen de acuerdo en los comienzos de su investigación, sino que, siguiendo adelante, lo natural es que paguen su error al no haber alcanzado esa concordia, ni entre ellos mismos, ni con los otros.

And this is because injustice creates divisions and hatreds and fighting, and justice imparts harmony and friendship; is not that true, Thrasymachus? I agree, he said, because I do not wish to quarrel with you.

lo semejante se une siempre a su semejante.

When the modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

No creo que el cuerpo, por bien constituido que esté, domine por su perfección al alma buena; por el contrario, creo que el alma, cuando es buena, imprime al cuerpo, como un efecto de su propia excelencia, toda la perfección de que es capaz." (Platón, República).

Mas la verdad es, creo yo, lo siguiente: la ciu­dad en que estén menos ansiosos por ser gobernantes quienes hayan de serlo, ésa ha de ser forzosamente la que viva mejor y con menos disensiones que ninguna; y la que tenga otra clase de gobernantes, de modo distinto.

Harmony and grace depend on simplicity… the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.

Love sees no enemies…fear does.

Hé bien, prolonge pour moi la joie du festin, en continuant à répondre. Nous venons de voir que les hommes justes sont meilleurs, plus habiles et plus forts que les hommes injustes ; que ceux-ci ne peuvent rien faire de concert ; et c'était une supposition gratuite que de supposer que des gens injustes aient

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils,—nor

Dear Pan and all you gods of this place, grant me that I may become beautiful within; and that what is in my possession outside me may be in friendly accord with what is inside. And may I count the wise man as rich; and may my pile of gold be of a size that no one but a man of moderate desires could bear or carry it. - Rowe's translation of Socrates' prayer to Pan

At that point they all agreed not to get drunk that evening; they decided to drink only as much as pleased them.