The Music of the Republic Quotes

“Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.”
― Eva Brann, The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings

“This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always be slowly engendered in leisurely direct conversation with its accompanying inner dialogue (Theaetetus 172 d). Socrates’ positive wisdom stated concisely in public would appear simply bizarre.”
― Eva Brann, The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings