Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
PlatoRead
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
Interpretation
What this quote means
Music connects deeply with our emotions and inner selves.
Plato's quote emphasizes the profound impact that music and rhythm have on human beings, suggesting that they can evoke feelings and thoughts that are often hidden within our souls. It reflects the idea that music is not merely a form of entertainment but also a vital means of expressing and understanding our innermost experiences and emotions.
Themes
MusicRhythmSoulEmotionArt
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the importance of art in society, this quote can be used to highlight the power of music.
More from Plato
All quotes βNot one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
PlatoRead
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
PlatoRead
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
PlatoRead
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PlatoRead
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
PlatoRead
Similar quotes
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
Brian EnoRead
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
Herbie HancockRead
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
Natasha TretheweyRead
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
Pete SeegerRead
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
George SaundersRead
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John IrvingRead