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• The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Socrates, quoting Plato
• Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
  -- Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827)...
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.), [quoting Plato]...
• Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
  -- Ludwig Van Bethoven (1770-1827) -- Letter to Bettina Von Arnim, 1810...
• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B...
• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Plato is a bore. NIETZSCHE