There is a wonderful story about the Greek philosopher Socrates, who was always busy in dialogues and debates with people. He was a very rational human being, who would occasionally fly beyond the frontiers of mind and have some strange revelations. It happened one night, while awaiting his death in prison, he was haunted by a dream that kept urging him, “Socrates, make music!” The philosopher thought that he had always served art with his philosophising. But now, spurred on by that mysterious voice, he turned fables into verse, indicted a hymn to Apollo, and played the flute.

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