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Full Idea
Music may be called a knowledge of the principles of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm.
Gist of Idea
Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm
Source
Plato (The Symposium [c.384 BCE], 187c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.55
| 171 | Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm [Plato] |
| 316 | Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us [Plato] |
| 5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
| 20101 | Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche] |
| 20341 | An interpretation adds further properties to the generic piece of music [Wollheim] |
| 12168 | Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton] |
| 12875 | One false note doesn't make it a performance of a different work [Simons] |
| 20402 | Music is too definite to be put into words (not too indefinite!) [Davies,S] |