“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”

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