#philosophy

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. ↗

— Plato

#philosophy #music

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #truth #music

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #nature-of-man #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #change

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #money

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#philosophy #religion #religion

I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#philosophy #nature

Who, I ask, ever found salvation through the conquests of Alexander? What city was ever more wisely governed because of them, what individual improved? Many indeed you might find whom those conquests enriched, but not one whom they made wiser or more temperate than he was by nature, if indeed they have not made him more insolent and arrogant. Whereas all who now find their salvation in philosophy owe it to Socrates. ↗

— Flavius Claudius Julianus

#politics #nature

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? ↗

— Kevin Dutton

#nature

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inanimate #inanimate-objects #interpretation #literature

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. ↗

— Howard Pattee

#philosophy #science #systems #nature